The moral collapse of the university : professionalism, purity, and alienation / Bruce Wilshire.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Alienation -- What is the educating act? -- Crisis of authority and identity : the inevitability of professionalism -- The professionalization of the university -- A specimen case of professionalizing a field of learning : philosophy -- Eccentricities and distortions of academic professionalism -- Academic professionalism as a veiled purification ritual -- Pollution phenomena : John Dewey's encounter with body-self -- Revolutionary thought of the early twentieth century : reintegrating self and world and a new foundation for humane knowledge -- The reactionary response of positivism : cementing purification, professionalism, segmentation in the university -- Recovering from positivism and reorganizing the university -- Reclaiming the vision of education : redefining definition, identity, gender.

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