Capital of Mind

The Idea of a Modern American University

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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The second volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education.Capital of Mind is the second volume in a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Picking up from the first volume, Exchange of Ideas, Adam R. Nelson looks at the early decades of the nineteenth century, explaining 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. This “industrialization of ideas” mirrored the industrialization of the American economy and catered to the demands of a new industrial middle class for practical and professional education. From Harvard in the north to the University of Virginia in the south, new experiments with the idea of a university elicited intense debate about the role of scholarship in national development and international competition, and whether higher education should be supported by public funds, especially in periods of fiscal austerity. The history of capitalism and the history of the university, Nelson reveals, are intimately intertwined—which raises a host of important questions that remain salient today. How do we understand knowledge and education as commercial goods? Should they be public or private? Who should pay for them? And, fundamentally, what is the optimal system of higher education for a capitalist democracy?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-01-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt:794 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:480
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226829203

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Adam R. Nelson is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is author of The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston’s Public Schools, 1950–1985 (also published by the University of Chicago Press), among other books.

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"Should American colleges and universities serve the public good? It all depends on what we mean by 'the public,'of course, and what we imagine would be 'good' for it. Adam Nelson has produced the first full history of how Americans established and funded higher education, and--especially--of how they deliberated its fundamental purposes. From now on, anyone who wants understand that debate--or to enter into it themselves--will have to consult this groundbreaking book."

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroductionPart I: The Idea of a “University,” 1812–18Charlottesville1. A Plan of a University in Virginia2. The Literary FundCambridge (via Göttingen)3. Our Young Geniuses in Boston4. The State of Literature in GermanyConsolidation5. Every Science Deemed Useful6. No One Will Buy What No One Has Offered to SellPart II: The Economy of Knowledge, 1818–24Crises7. The Late Riot at Göttingen8. The Inadequacy of the Funds for the UniversityControversies . . . and Curricula9. A Professor of Political Economy10. The Science of WealthCompetition!11. If We Can Ever Have a University at Cambridge12. Intellectual EconomyPart III: The Industrialization of Ideas, 1824–30Cosmopolitanism/Commercialism13. To Improve Our Science, as We Have Done Our Manufactures, by Borrowed Skill14. Filled by ForeignersConflict15. Modern Views of Liberal Education16. Friedrich ListCatalyst17. Intellectual Power18. An Honorable Competition with the Universities of EuropeConclusionAfterwordAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographic EssayIndex