{"product_id":"organizing-enlightenment-information-overload-and-the-invention-of-the-modern-research-university-paperback","title":"Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChad Wellmon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Enlightenment-era concerns that gave rise to the modern research university can illuminate contemporary debates about knowledge in the digital age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its inception, the research university has been the central institution of knowledge in the West. Today its intellectual authority is being challenged on many fronts, above all by radical technological change. \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how the university emerged in the early nineteenth century at a similarly fraught moment of cultural anxiety about revolutionary technologies and their disruptive effects on established institutions of knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the histories of science, the university, and print, as well as media theory and philosophy, Chad Wellmon explains how the research university and the ethic of disciplinarity it created emerged as the final and most lasting technology of the Enlightenment. \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e reveals higher education's story as one not only of the production of knowledge but also of the formation of a particular type of person: the disciplinary self. In order to survive, the university would have to institutionalize a new order of knowledge, one that was self-organizing, internally coherent, and embodied in the very character of the modern, critical scholar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its inception, the research university has been the central institution of knowledge in the West. Today its intellectual authority is being challenged on many fronts, above all by radical technological change. \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how the university emerged in the early nineteenth century at a similarly fraught moment of cultural anxiety about revolutionary technologies and their disruptive effects on established institutions of knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the histories of science, the university, and print, as well as media theory and philosophy, Chad Wellmon explains how the research university and the ethic of disciplinarity it created emerged as the final and most lasting technology of the Enlightenment. \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e reveals higher education's story as one not only of the production of knowledge but also of the formation of a particular type of person: the disciplinary self. In order to survive, the university would have to institutionalize a new order of knowledge, one that was self-organizing, internally coherent, and embodied in the very character of the modern, critical scholar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrganizing Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e helps us understand how specialization is not a new problem to be solved but the answer to an older problem of media surplus which we still inhabit. The more we hear calls for the reform of research universities today, the more we will need such insightful and clearly written histories as this one.--Andrew Piper, McGill University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crisis of the university in the age of MOOCs and the new media? As Chad Wellmon shows in this learned and lucid study, we've been there before, several times.--Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrganizing Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e shows just how much our own technologies and freedoms grew directly from German university traditions. It is eye-opening history and necessary reading for anyone who thinks the humanities play a secondary role to technology.--Jacob Soll, University of Southern California\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eChad Wellmon\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of German studies at the University of Virginia and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--Jacob Soll, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System\u003c\/i\u003e \"Choice\"\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its inception, the research university has been the central institution of knowledge in the West. Today its intellectual authority is being challenged on many fronts, above all by radical technological change. \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how the university emerged in the early nineteenth century at a similarly fraught moment of cultural anxiety about revolutionary technologies and their disruptive effects on established institutions of knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the histories of science, the university, and print, as well as media theory and philosophy, Chad Wellmon explains how the research university and the ethic of disciplinarity it created emerged as the final and most lasting technology of the Enlightenment. \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e reveals higher education's story as one not only of the production of knowledge but also of the formation of a particular type of person: the disciplinary self. In order to survive, the university would have to institutionalize a new order of knowledge, one that was self-organizing, internally coherent, and embodied in the very character of the modern, critical scholar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOrganizing Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e helps us understand how specialization is not a new problem to be solved but the answer to an older problem of media surplus which we still inhabit. The more we hear calls for the reform of research universities today, the more we will need such insightful and clearly written histories as this one.\"--Andrew Piper, McGill University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The crisis of the university in the age of MOOCs and the new media? As Chad Wellmon shows in this learned and lucid study, we've been there before, several times.\"--Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOrganizing Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e shows just how much our own technologies and freedoms grew directly from German university traditions. It is eye-opening history and necessary reading for anyone who thinks the humanities play a secondary role to technology.\"--Jacob Soll, University of Southern California\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChad Wellmon\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of German studies at the University of Virginia and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChad Wellmon\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of German studies at the University of Virginia and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. 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