Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University

By: William Clark

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Paperback | 5 October 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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 catalog, the grading system, the conduct of oral and written exams, the roles of conversation and the writing of research papers in seminars, the writing and oral defense of the doctoral dissertation, the ethos of "lecturing with 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.

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"In almost any way that one can imagine, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University is an astonishing book.... Many times the prose is purposefully funny and anything but dry-as-dust academic writing. No summary can do justice to a book so relentless in analysis and so rich in original source material.... This is a brilliant book. The styles and methods may be recognizable, but the whole is daringly new, exciting, and disturbing." - Sheldon Rothblatt, American Scientist "[Clark] makes his case with analytic shrewdness, an exuberant love of archival anecdote, and a wry sense of humor. It's hard to resist a writer who begins by noting, 'Befitting the subject, this is an odd book.'" - Anthony Grafton, New Yorker"

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Non-Fiction Education Higher & Further Education Universities History Specific Events & Topics in History Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Social Research & Statistics

Prologue
Charisma and Rationalization	p. 3
Tradition, Rationalization, Charisma: On the Dominion of the Author and the Legible
The Lecture Catalogue	p. 33
The Lecture and the Disputation	p. 68
The Examination	p. 93
The Research Seminar	p. 141
The Doctor of Philosophy	p. 183
The Appointment of a Professor	p. 239
The Library Catalogue	p. 297
Narrative, Conversation, Reputation: On the Ineluctability of the Voice and the Oral
Academic Babble and Ministerial Machinations	p. 339
Ministerial Hearing and Academic Commodification	p. 373
Academic Voices and the Ghost in the Machine	p. 398
Epilogue
The Research University and Beyond	p. 435
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Notes	p. 515
Abbreviations	p. 565
Bibliography	p. 567
Illustration Credits	p. 625
Acknowledgements	p. 629
Index	p. 633
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