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Tables of Contents for Challenging Knowledge
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface and Acknowledgements
vii
Introduction: Challenging Knowledge
1
11
Knowledge and Cognition: The Sociology of Knowledge Reconsidered
12
14
Rethinking the sociology of knowledge
13
4
Cognitive shifts and the social theory of modernity
17
5
The university and the transformation of knowledge
22
4
The University in the Age of Liberal Modernity: Between Cosmopolitanism and Nation State
26
18
The rise of the modern university
27
8
Liberal modernity: the nineteenth century
35
4
The decline of liberal modernity
39
5
The University in Organized Modernity: Capitalism, the State and Citizenship
44
15
The university and Citizenship
46
5
The Parsonian theory: the cognitive function of the university
51
5
Social change and the university
56
3
The Transformative Project: Democracy, the Counter-culture and communication
59
15
The crisis of organized modernity: culture and politics
61
3
The new German debate on the university: Habermas, Gadamer and Schelsky
64
6
The rise of student revolt: Marcuse, Touraine and Riesman
70
4
The Institutionalization of Critique: Intellectuals, the Public Sphere and the University
74
14
Mannheim and Gramsci on intellectuals and modernity
75
3
Traditional intellectuals and conservative critique: from Benda to Bloom
78
1
Gouldner on the New Class and Universities
79
4
In search of public intellectuals
83
5
Academic Power and Cultural Capital: Bourdieu on Knowledge and the University
88
13
Education as social reproduction
89
4
The fields of power within the university
93
4
Reflexivity, the scholastic fallacy and intellectuals
97
4
The University and the New Production of Knowledge: From the Producer to the User
101
14
The end of Knowledge?
103
3
The new manageralism
106
2
The rise of the knowledge user
108
2
The separation of teaching and research
110
2
Beyond Mode 2 analysis
112
3
Globalization and Academic Capitalism: The New Knowledge Flows
115
15
Globalization, the state and the university
116
4
Academic capitalism and the triple helix
120
6
The reality of the virtual university?
126
2
Cosmopolitanism versus globalization
128
2
The Postmodern University: Deconstructing Knowledge and Institutions
130
12
Postmodernism and knowledge
131
2
Postmodern theories of the university
133
6
The university in ruins?
139
3
The New Politics of Knowledge: Culture Wars, Identity and Multiculturalism
142
10
Culture wars and the university
144
3
The turn to culture and theory
147
3
Beyond instrumentalism and relativism
150
2
Conclusion: Knowledge, Citizenship and Reflexivity
152
7
References
159
14
Index
173
3
The Society for Research into Higher Education
176