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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
About the author
Bruce Wilshire is Senior Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He received the Herbert Schneider Lifetime Achievement Award for 2001 from the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. He is the author of many books, including most recently,
The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought.
