Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag berieben, leichte Randl�ren, Buchschnitt leicht angeschmutzt, Bleistifteintrag auf Schmutztitel, sonst guter Zustand / dust jacket rubbed, slight edge wear, book edge slightly soiled, pencil entry on half title, otherwise good condition. - Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University uses the history of the university and reframes the Protestant Ethic to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that the research university�which originated in German Protestant lands and spread globally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries�developed in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a new kind of academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication. With an astonishing wealth of research, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University investigates the origins and evolving fixtures of academic life: the lecture catalogue, the library catalogue, the grading system, the conduct of oral and written exams, the roles of conversation and writing in seminars, the written and oral defense of the doctoral dissertation, the ethos of lecturing for applause and �publish or perish,� and the role of reviews and rumor. This is a grand, ambitious book that should be required reading for every academic. / Contents PROLOGUE 1. Charisma and Rationalization PART ONE TRADITION, RATIONALIZATION, CHARISMA On the Dominion of the Author and the Legible 2. The Lecture Catalogue 3. The Lecture and the Disputation 4. The Examination 5. The Research Seminar 6. The Doctor of Philosophy 7. The Appointment of a Professor 8. The Library Catalogue PART TWO NARRATIVE, CONVERSATION, REPUTATION On the Ineluctability of the Voice and the Oral 9. Academic Babble and Ministerial Machinations 10. Ministerial Hearing and Academic Commodification 11. Academic Voices and the Ghost in the Machine EPILOGUE 12. The Research University and Beyond Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4 Appendix 5 Appendix 6 Notes Abbreviations Bibliography Illustration Credits Acknowledgements Index. ISBN 9780226109213