Description
Book SynopsisScholars across the disciplines, specialists in higher education, administrators, and interested readers will find the book's multiple perspectives and practical advice on building and operating-and avoiding fallacies and errors-in interdisciplinary research and education invaluable.
Trade Review[A] complex tapestry of the history of interdisciplinary knowledge production and institutionalization. Undisciplining Knowledge offers a detailed and illuminating account of the historical and intellectual forces that shaped interdisciplinarity in the twentieth century and those that continue to do so today. Science Magazine Graff's carefully argued book is much to be welcomed. The Quarterly Review of Biology
Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Sciences of Life and Society in the Making of the Research University
2. Crossing and Remaking Boundaries
3. In Search of Unification for War and Peace
4. Between Mind and Mentality
5. A Material World and the Making of Lifeworlds
6. The Past and Future of Interdisciplinarity
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
