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Capital of mind : the idea of a modern American university / Adam R. Nelson

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2024Description: xvii, 476 SeitenISBN:
  • 9780226829203
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title | 9780226829210. DDC classification:
  • 378.7309/034 23/eng/20230313
LOC classification:
  • LC67.62
Summary: "In the second volume of his planned trilogy that will recast the history of the university in a fresh and surprising light, Adam R. Nelson aims to show how knowledge, which had been commodified starting in the late eighteenth century, became industrialized in the nineteenth century. Nelson explains how the idea of the modern university arose from a set of institutional and ideological reforms designed to foster the mass production and mass consumption of knowledge--that is, the industrialization of ideas. Fusing the history of higher education with the history of capitalism, Nelson suggests that this "marketization" of knowledge propelled the institutionalization of the university, far earlier than previously understood"--Call number: Grundsignatur: 2024 A 716PPN: PPN: 1847830595
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Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Freihandbestand ausleihbar Bibliothek Campus Süd soz 2.26 Lesesaal Geisteswissenschaften (LSG) 2024 A 716 Available 54001198090
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