Waubonsee Community College

Capital of mind, the idea of a modern American university, Adam R. Nelson

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Capital of mind

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Adam R. Nelson

the idea of a modern American university

"In the second volume of his planned trilogy that will recast the history of the university in a fresh and surprising light, Adam R. Nelson aims to show how knowledge, which had been commodified starting in the late eighteenth century, became industrialized in the nineteenth century. Nelson explains how the idea of the modern university arose from a set of institutional and ideological reforms designed to foster the mass production and mass consumption of knowledge--that is, the industrialization of ideas. Fusing the history of higher education with the history of capitalism, Nelson suggests that this "marketization" of knowledge propelled the institutionalization of the university, far earlier than previously understood"--, Provided by publisher

Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1. The idea of a "university", 1812-18. Charlottesville; A plan of a university in Virginia; The literary fund; Cambridge (via Göttingen); Our young geniuses in Boston; The state of literature in Germany; Every science deemed useful; No one will buy what no one has offered to sell -- Part II. The economy of knowledge, 1818-1824. Crises. The late riot at Göttingen; The inadequacy of the funds for the university; Controversies...and curricula; A professor of political economy; The science of wealth; Competition!; If we can ever have a university at Cambridge; Intellectual economy -- Part III. The industrialization of ideas, 1824-1830. Cosmopolitanism/commercialism; To improve our science, as we have done our manufactures, by borrowed skill; Filled by foreigners; Conflict; Modern views of liberal education; Friedrich List; Catalyst; Intellectual power; An honorable competition with the universities of Europe -- Conclusion -- Afterword