The very idea of academic culture: What academy? What culture?

Abstract: In what senses can the academy be said to be a site of culture? Does that very idea bear much weight today? Perhaps the negative proposition has more substance, namely that the academy is no longer (if indeed it ever was) a place of culture. After all, we live in dark times-of unbridled power, tyranny, domination and manipulation. Some say that we have entered an age of the posthuman or even the inhuman. It just may be, however, that in such a world, the academic community is needed more than ever for it offers a culture of justified revelation. It is a culture that reveals the world to us in new ways, but in ways that are attested and contested; its judgements emerge out of a critical and unworldly pedantry. With some hesitancy, we can legitimately therefore speak of not just a culture of the academic community but, indeed, the culture of the academic community.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: The very idea of academic culture: What academy? What culture? ; volume:24 ; number:1 ; year:2014 ; pages:7-19 ; extent:13 ; Human affairs ; 24, Heft 1 (2014), 7-19 (gesamt 13)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Barnett, Ronald

Further information

• DOI: 10.2478/s13374-014-0202-4
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2404291651015.806477860571
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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