In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture

by Deborah L. Rhode

Book Overview

Although academics have never lacked for critics, publications on the profession tend to be either popularized polemics, which are engaging but misleading, or scholarly analyses, which are intellectually responsible but of little interest to anyone but specialists. In Pursuit of Knowledge offers an alternative: a unique portrait of academic life that should appeal to both experts and a general audience.

Drawing on a wide range of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804755345
• ISBN13: 9780804755344
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"