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Politics of Knowledge: The Commercialization of the University, the Professions, and Print Culture
Richard Ohmann
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paperback. These essays and interviews analyse, explain and criticize the roles of the university, the academic professions and publishing in a rearranged America. Richard Ohmann focuses on the opposed movements of a more open university and overwhelmingly powerful multinational corporations. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNA; JNMN; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Richard Ohmann's work is in a class by itself. While editor of College English, and in the three books he published since then, he has created America's most comprehensive vision of how teaching and scholarship are at once part of the university, of society and of history. In Politics of Knowledge, Ohmann's essays and interviews analyze, explain and criticize the roles of the university, the academic professions and publishing in a rearranged America. Focusing on the opposed movements of a more open university and overwhelmingly powerful multinational corporations, he offers language and formulations that will help present generations move closer ... Read more
Richard Ohmann's work is in a class by itself. While editor of College English, and in the three books he published since then, he has created America's most comprehensive vision of how teaching and scholarship are at once part of the university, of society and of history. In Politics of Knowledge, Ohmann's essays and interviews analyze, explain and criticize the roles of the university, the academic professions and publishing in a rearranged America. Focusing on the opposed movements of a more open university and overwhelmingly powerful multinational corporations, he offers language and formulations that will help present generations move closer ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819565907
SKU
V9780819565907
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About Richard Ohmann
Richard Ohmann is Professor Emeritus of English at Wesleyan University and the author of three Wesleyan books. Janice Radway is Frances Fox Professor of Literature at Duke University.
Reviews for Politics of Knowledge: The Commercialization of the University, the Professions, and Print Culture
"Confirms Richard Ohmann's position as one of the preeminent voices, perhaps the preeminent voice, speaking of and for the profession of English today...his career offers a visible and inspiring model for mixing activism and scholarship." - Bruce Robbins, author of Secular Vocations; "For two generations, Richard Ohmann's writing taught us how to write. His imagination taught us how to relate ... Read more