Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University

by Chad Wellmon

Book Overview

The Enlightenment-era concerns that gave rise to the modern research university can illuminate contemporary debates about knowledge in the digital age.

Since its inception, the research university has been the central institution of knowledge in the West. Today its intellectual authority is being challenged on many fronts, above all by radical technological change. Organizing Enlightenment tells the story of how the university...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421419882
• ISBN13: 9781421419886
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"