Listen to Steve Fuller talk about his latest book in this series of podcasts recorded during Warwick University's Festival of Social Science. The Sociology of Intellectual Life outlines a social theory of knowledge for the 21st century. With characteristic subtlety and verve, Steve Fuller deals directly with a world in which it is no longer taken for granted that universities and academics are the best places and people to embody the life of the mind. While Fuller defends academic privilege, he takes very seriously the historic divergences between academics and intellectuals, attending especially to the different features of knowledge production that they value. The boook's features include: - an account of the problematic relationship between postmodernism and the university as an institution - the problems facing an academic who wishes also to function as an intellectual - a critical survey of the emerging fields of social epistemology and the sociology of philosophy - a discussion of the ethics and politics of public intellectual life, especially given its largely improvisational (or as Fuller himself terms it, 'bullshit') character. INDICE: IntroductionPART ONE: THE PLACE OF INTELLECTUAL LIFE: THE UNIVERSITYThe University as an Institutional Solution to the Problem of KnowledgeThe Alienability of Knowledge in our So-called Knowledge SocietyThe Knowledge Society as Capitalism of the Third OrderWill the University Survive the Era of Knowledge Management?Postmodernism as an Anti-university MovementRegaining the University's Critical Edge by Historicizing the CurriculumAffirmative Action as a Strategy for Redressing the Balance between Research and TeachingAcademics Rediscover Their Soul: The Rebirth of 'Academic Freedom'PART TWO: THE STUFF OF INTELLECTUAL LIFE: PHILOSOPHYEpistemology as 'Always Already' Social EpistemologyFrom Social Epistemology to the Sociology of Philosophy The Codification of Professional Prejudices?Interlude: Seeds of an Alternative Sociology of PhilosophyProlegomena to a Critical Sociology of Twentieth-century Anglophone PhilosophyAnalytic Philosophy's Ambivalence Toward the Empirical SciencesProfessionalism as Differentiating American and British PhilosophyConclusion: Anglophone Philosophy as a Victim of Its Own SuccessPART THREE: THE PEOPLE OF INTELLECTUAL LIFE: INTELLECTUALSCan Intellectuals Survive If the Academy Is a No-fool Zone? How Intellectuals Became an Endangered Species in Our Times: The Trail of PsychologismA Genealogy of Anti-intellectualism: From Invisible Hand to Social Contagion Re-defining the Intellectual as an Agent of Distributive JusticeThe Critique of Intellectuals in a Time of Pragmatist CaptivityPierre Bourdieu: The Academic Sociologist as Public IntellectualPART FOUR: THE IMPROVISATIONAL NATURE OF INTELLECTUAL LIFEAcademics Caught Between Plagiarism and BullshitBullshit: A Disease Whose Cure Is Always WorseThe Scientific Method as a Search for the (Piled) Higher (and Deeper) BullshitConclusion: How to Improvise on the World-historic Stage
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-2839-7
- Editorial: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 192
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