Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University
- ISBN-10
- 1421416158
- ISBN-13
- 9781421416151
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 353
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-04-20
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Chad Wellmon
Description
Tells the story of how the research university emerged in the early nineteenth century at a similarly fraught moment of cultural anxiety about revolutionary technologies and their disruptive effects on established institutions of knowledge.
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