Description
Book SynopsisA study of Martin Bernal's """"Black Athena"""", which explored the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization and caused controversy among Afrocentrists and Classicists alike. It includes a discussion of Bernal's critique of the research university and a reconstruction of his """"sociology of knowledge"""".
Trade ReviewHeresy in the University is an exemplary act of adjudication-genuinely clarifying about matters that have so often, most often been obscured by angry polemic, genuinely judicious in a way that only a very capacious, open-minded and broad-ranging mind could manage, charmingly self-conscious about its own limits and yet quite passionate about its loyalties...an exemplary book. -- Bruce Robbins * coeditor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation and author of Feeling Global: Inte *
Berlinerblau's ability to integrate far-reaching serious scholarly and ethical issues within the substantive content of the Black Athena debate is impressive. -- Molly Myerowitz Levine * Howard University, coeditor of The Challenge of Black Athena *
Table of ContentsEpistemological canyons : the anomic academy
The ancient model : hard moderns versus idiosyncratic ancient
The revised ancient model : the heretic's cocktail
The Aryan models
Atmospheric determinism
The antinomies of Martin Bernal
A "total contestation" of the research university : "beware the nonspecialist"
The academic Elvis
Reconfiguring the ancient Egyptians : Bernal's strategic reading
Contentious communities : "blacks and Jews" and Black Athena
We scholars : heresy in the university/Intellectual responsibility/passionate ambivalence
