Politics of Knowledge: The Commercialization of the University, the Professions, and Print Culture. By Richard  Ohmann; foreword by, Janice  Radway. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2003. Pp. 308. $65.00 (cloth). ISBN 0‐8195‐6589‐X. $22.95 (paper). ISBN 0‐8195‐6590‐3.

2004 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-222
Author(s):  
Lynne C. Howarth
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Politics Of Knowledge ◽  
The University

Jodocus Badius Ascensius

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul White
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
French Renaissance ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
Textual Culture ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University ◽  
Circulation Of Knowledge

Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462-1535), also known as Josse Bade, was a scholar and printer who played a central role in the flourishing of humanism and print culture in the French Renaissance. In a career spanning four decades, he was involved with the print publication of something approaching one thousand editions. He was known for the ‘familiar’ commentaries he wrote and published as introductions to the major authors of Latin (and less frequently, Greek) antiquity, as well as on texts by medieval and contemporary authors. His commentaries and prefaces document the early stages of French humanism, and his texts played a major role in forming the minds of future generations. This book provides an account of Badius’s contributions to pedagogy, scholarship, printing and humanist culture. Its main focus is on Latin language commentaries on classical texts. It examines Badius’s multiple roles in the light of changing conceptions of textual culture during the Renaissance. It also explores the wider context of the communities with which Badius cultivated relationships: scholars and printers, figures from religious orders, the university and officialdom. It considers the readerships for which Badius produced texts in France, England, Scotland, the Low Countries, and beyond. It explores the ways in which humanists understood the circulation of knowledge in terms of economy and commerce, and their conceptualizations of commentary as a site of cultural mediation.

scholarly journals The Politics of Knowledge in 1960s America

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Jewett
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Traditional Conception ◽  
Politics Of Knowledge ◽  
Public Purpose ◽  
Educational Philosophies ◽  
Moral Debate ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

This article offers a broad sketch of claims regarding the university’s public purpose in the 1960s while noting that a vision of the university as an autonomous forum for moral debate cut across the seemingly insurmountable divide between young radicals and their liberal elders. Read through the lens of educational philosophies, the era's clashes did not simply pit liberal advocates of political neutrality against radical exponents of political commitment. Rather, many radical activists—and some liberals— believed that the university should cut off many of its ties to the wider society to gain a more critical purchase on it. Indeed, critics of Clark Kerr's bureaucratic “multiversity” often hewed to a surprisingly traditional conception of higher education.

scholarly journals Books and Resources Available for Review

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-71
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Stephane Mallarme ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Artist's Book ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Please contact Christine DeZelar-Tiedman ([email protected]) if you are interested in reviewing one of the resources listed below. Books Arnar, Anna Sigrídur. The Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, the Artist’s Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Cullingford, Alison. The Special Collections Handbook. London: Facet Publishing (dist. by Neal-Schuman), 2011. Cuno, James. Museums Matter: in Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment: Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton. Ed. by Charles Walton. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011

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