{"product_id":"heresy-in-the-university-black-athena-controversy-and-the-responsibilities-of-american-intellectuals-the-black-athena-controversy-and-the-responsibilities-of-american-intellectuals-9780813525884","title":"Heresy in the University Black Athena Controversy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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\"\"\"\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeresy 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 *\u003cbr\u003eBerlinerblau'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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpistemological canyons : the anomic academy\u003cbr\u003e The ancient model : hard moderns versus idiosyncratic ancient\u003cbr\u003e The revised ancient model : the heretic's cocktail\u003cbr\u003e The Aryan models\u003cbr\u003e Atmospheric determinism\u003cbr\u003e The antinomies of Martin Bernal\u003cbr\u003e A \"total contestation\" of the research university : \"beware the nonspecialist\"\u003cbr\u003e The academic Elvis\u003cbr\u003e Reconfiguring the ancient Egyptians : Bernal's strategic reading\u003cbr\u003e Contentious communities : \"blacks and Jews\" and Black Athena\u003cbr\u003e We scholars : heresy in the university\/Intellectual responsibility\/passionate ambivalence","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405773316439,"sku":"9780813525884","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813525884.jpg?v=1730493564","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/heresy-in-the-university-black-athena-controversy-and-the-responsibilities-of-american-intellectuals-the-black-athena-controversy-and-the-responsibilities-of-american-intellectuals-9780813525884","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}