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Babel and the ivory tower : the scholar in the age of science /

"Torn between the competing forces of scholarship as a profession and scholarship as a calling - between Babel and the Ivory Tower - the modern academic faces a dilemma: should she or he try to preserve the soul of higher education by cultivating the Muse of personal knowledge, or renounce the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shaw, W. David (William David)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The prophet and the scholar : two paths to knowledge
  • The scholar's wager : the lottery of higher learning
  • The scientist's knowledge : the genius of discovery
  • The scholar's knowledge : the conversation of the learned
  • Contemplative knowledge : a secret discipline
  • Practical knowledge : Prometheus to Faust
  • Personal knowledge : the lifeblood of learning
  • From maps to models : closed and open knowledge
  • Socratic mentors : proving truth by living it
  • Prophet, rebel, poet : the scholar's hidden knowledge
  • From Ivory Tower to Babel : the secret of the maze.