Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University

by William Clark

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226109216
• ISBN13: 9780226109213
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.7" x 9.3"