The Moral Collapse of the University - Bruce Wilshire - Bog

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Introduction Part One: The Academic Professional: Problems of Self-Knowledge and Education
I. Alienation
II. What is the Educating Act?
III. Crisis of Authority and Identity: The Inevitability of Professionalism
IV. The Professionalization of the University Part Two: Academic Professionalism and Identity: Rites of Purification and Exclusion
V. A Specimen Case of Professionalizing a Field of Learning: Philosophy
VI. Eccentricities and Distortions of Academic Professionalism
VII. Academic Professionalism as a Veiled Purification Ritual
VIII. Pollution Phenomena: John Dewey's Encounter with Body-Self
Part Three: Reorganizing the University
IX. Revolutionary Thought of the Early Twentieth Century: Reintegrating Self and World and a New Foundation for Humane Knowledge
X. The Reactionary Response of Positivism: Cementing Purification, Professionalism Segmentation in the University
XI. Recovering from Positivism and Reorganizing the University
XII. Reclaiming the Vision of Education: Redefining Definition, Identity, Gender
Epilogue

Index