After the University Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work

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Title: After the University Higher Education and the Future of Intellectual Work
Author: Chad Wellmon
Category: Education & Teaching, Aims & Objectives, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Higher Education
Language: English | 282 str. Pages | ISBN: 9781421454368


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When the pursuit of knowledge is eclipsed by money and power, what remains of higher learning?

What is a university for? Is it a sanctuary for disciplined study, or has it become something else entirely? In After the University, Chad Wellmon traces the long and often uneasy relationship between higher learning and the institutions that claim to protect it. Moving from the guilds of medieval Paris and the knowledge factories of Enlightenment-era Göttingen to the research empires of Berlin and Berkeley, Wellmon shows how the modern university has repeatedly reshaped itself to serve shifting social and political demands.

Across centuries, the goods of disciplined study―the joy of reading, the virtues of intellectual rigor, and the possibility of self-formation―have been overshadowed by the pursuit of external rewards such as money, prestige, and power. Part institutional history and part philosophical reflection, After the University examines how today's institutions defend themselves not in the name of learning but in the language of productivity, innovation, and economic utility. Drawing on his experiences as a scholar, teacher, administrator, and witness to crises such as white supremacist marches and the COVID- pandemic, Wellmon illustrates how universities justify themselves through the outputs of graduates, research discoveries, and workforce training while leaving unmentioned the very practices that once defined them.