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Challenging Knowledge

Paperback • 2001 • English

Challenging Knowledge: The University in the Knowledge Society

By Delanty, Gerard

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Drawing from current debates in social theory about the changing nature of knowledge, this book offers the most comprehensive sociological theory of the university that has yet appeared. The famous philosophical conceptions of the university from the Enlightenment to postmodern thought are discussed along with the major writings in modern social theory on the university, such as those of Weber, Parsons, Habermas, Gadamer, Lyotard and Bourdieu. In this far reaching contribution to the sociology o...Show more

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ISBN

9780335205783

Publisher

Open University Press

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

Challenging Knowledge

Format

Paperback

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