The Rationalization of Academia: From Bildung to Production

Jeroen van Andel

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Pages:: 1–16

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401207447_002

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Using Herbert Marcuse’s rationalization paradigm this chapter aims to demonstrate that the ways in which academic knowledge is created and accumulated have become increasingly rational and one-dimensional. It is argued that the rationalization and one-dimensionality of knowledge creation and accumulation have far-reaching consequences for both academia and society. It is further argued that the on-going rationalization of academic knowledge seems to have resulted in (a further) erosion of the concept of Bildung in favour of a more instrumental approach towards knowledge and learning.

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Understanding Knowledge Creation

Intellectuals in Academia, the Public Sphere and the Arts

Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume: 78

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401207447

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2012

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