The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men - Couverture souple

Veblen, Thorstein

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1421416786 ISBN 13 : 9781421416786

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015

Synopsis

The first scholarly edition of Thorstein Veblen's classic indictment of the corporate model of American university governance.

Since its publication in 1918, Thorstein Veblen's The Higher Learning in America has remained a text that every serious student of the American university must confront. Intellectual historian Richard Teichgraeber brings us the first scholarly edition of Veblen's classic, thoroughly edited, annotated, and indexed. An extensive introduction discusses the book's composition and publishing history, Veblen's debts to earlier critics of the American university, and the place of The Higher Learning in America in current debates about the American university.

Veblen's insights into the American university system at the outset of the twentieth century are as provocative today as they were when first published. Insisting that institutions of higher learning should be dedicated solely to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, he urged American universities to abandon commitments to extraneous pursuits such as athletics, community service, and vocational education. He also believed that the corporate model of governance--with university boards of trustees dominated by well-to-do businessmen and university presidents who functioned essentially as businessmen in academic dress--mandated unsavory techniques of salesmanship and self-promotion that threatened to reduce institutions of higher learning to the status of competitive business enterprises.

With a detailed chronology, suggested readings, and comprehensive notes identifying events, individuals, and institutions to which Veblen alludes, this volume is sure to become the standard teaching text for Veblen's classic work and an invaluable resource for students of both the history and the current workings of the American university.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

One of the most influential social scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) wrote numerous books, including The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions and The Instinct of Workmanship: And the State of the Industrial Arts.

Richard F. Teichgraeber III is a professor of history at Tulane University. He is the author of Building Culture: Studies in the Intellectual History of Industrializing America, 1867-1910 and Sublime Thoughts/Penny Wisdom: Situating Emerson and Thoreau in the American Market.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421416786
• ISBN 13: 9781421416786
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Éditeur: Teichgraeber III Richard F.
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