Politics of Knowledge: The Commercialization of the University, the Professions, and Print Culture

by Janice A. Radway and Richard Ohmann

Cultural analysis of the American university system.

Richard Ohmann's work is in a class by itself. While editor of College English, and in the three books he published since then, he has created America's most comprehensive vision of how teaching and scholarship are at once part of the university, of society and of history. In Politics of Knowledge, Ohmann's essays and interviews analyze, explain and criticize the roles of the university,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819565903
• ISBN13: 9780819565907
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher