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What is at stake in compromising the Enlightenment ideals of liberal education with educational policies engendered by a neo-liberalized, global marketplace? This text explores Western culture's longstanding ambivalence toward "the life of the mind".

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Sassower writes well, and his thesis is courageous and provocative. * Journal of Higher Education *
Provocative, original, and wholly convincing. . . . The author has thoughtfully engaged the future of higher education and produced a major work without compromising the appeal to the life of the mind. -- Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center, author of From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future

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Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 The Life of the Mind Chapter 3 The Emerging Academic Model Chapter 4 Intellectual Responsibility Chapter 5 Academic Confusions Chapter 6 Academics as Visionaries and Prophets Chapter 7 Bibliography

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/07/2000
      ISBN13: 9780847698424, 978-0847698424
      ISBN10: 0847698424

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What is at stake in compromising the Enlightenment ideals of liberal education with educational policies engendered by a neo-liberalized, global marketplace? This text explores Western culture's longstanding ambivalence toward "the life of the mind".

      Trade Review
      Sassower writes well, and his thesis is courageous and provocative. * Journal of Higher Education *
      Provocative, original, and wholly convincing. . . . The author has thoughtfully engaged the future of higher education and produced a major work without compromising the appeal to the life of the mind. -- Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center, author of From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future

      Table of Contents
      Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 The Life of the Mind Chapter 3 The Emerging Academic Model Chapter 4 Intellectual Responsibility Chapter 5 Academic Confusions Chapter 6 Academics as Visionaries and Prophets Chapter 7 Bibliography

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