دانلود کتاب Knowledge and the University: Re-claiming Life

فهرست مطالب :

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The life-enhancing university
The basic issue
Our thesis: university, knowledge and life
Two rival accounts of the university, knowledge, and the world
Crisis, what crisis?
The spirit of the university
Music and the life-enhancing university
Structure of this book
Notes
PART I: The university and life
1. Life in truth and truth in life
Introduction
Hunting for truth
Expanding the standard accounts
The life of truth and the life in truth
Passionate truth
Aculture of truthfulness
Conclusions: life in truth and truth in life
Notes
2. The real thing
Introduction
Having one’s cake
Rehabilitating objectivity
Life and understanding
The life of the world and the university
Conclusions
Notes
3. Re-placing the humanities
Introduction
Culture and the university
The warping of reason
An impoverishment of thought and even of culture?
Along time a-dying
Are the humanities so special?
Conclusions: return to life
Notes
4. Where’s the life in academic knowledge?
Introduction
Beyond postmodernism
Is there life in wisdom?
Transgressions of knowledge
Signs of life
Threads of academic life
Conclusion
Notes
Interlude: on life
PART II: The spirit of academic knowledge
5. More than mere debate
Introduction
Remembering an event
Just amarketplace of ideas?
Anything goes– or anyone goes?
The life of conversation
Aconversational ecology
The new conversationalists
Conclusion
Notes
6. A will to know
Introduction
Anew will emerges
Knowledge as the ripening of life
The power of knowledge
Knowledge for the sake of life
The world wants to be known
Alack of faith– and faith restored
The will of the people
Conclusion
Notes
7. Living with darkness
Introduction
Shrouded in darkness
Three kinds of darkness and more besides
Working through the darkness
The fatigue of darkness
Thresholds
Surge of light
Conclusion: knowledge as the mystery of life
Notes
8. Edifying knowledge
Introduction
What is ‘higher’ about higher education?
Multiply edifying
Knowledge as personal and cultural growth
Knowledge as moral sentiment
Problems with democracy
Knowledge as critical engagement
Knowledge as attention to life
Conclusion
Notes
9. A culture of lively discourse
Introduction
Amatter of culture
Aculture of speech acts– of acertain kind
The CORSA situation
The spirit of academic discourse
Where’s the argument?
Conclusions
Notes
PART III: Cultivating knowledge in the university
10. Living reason
Introduction
Aspace of reasoning
Living together– aplace for reasoning
Societal guilding
Cosmopolitanism and global reasoning
Cultural leadership
Conclusions
Notes
11. Widening the knowledge ecology
Introduction
Epistemic energy
More air
What’s to become of the university library?
Ecological interests
On spirit
Ecological power
Conclusions
Notes
12. Reaching out
Introduction
Public reach
Reaching the limits
Advancing the learning ecology
Ways of reaching out
Fear of reaching
How then reach out?
Conclusions
Notes
Coda: re-enchanting the university with a new cognitive spirit
Bibliography
Subject index
Name index