A. W. Brian Simpson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199693320
- eISBN:
- 9780191731983
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693320.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is one of the most influential works of philosophy of the 20th century, redefining the field of legal philosophy and introducing generations of students to philosophical ...
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HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is one of the most influential works of philosophy of the 20th century, redefining the field of legal philosophy and introducing generations of students to philosophical reflection on the nature of law. Since its publication in 1961 an industry of academic research and debate has grown up around the book, disputing, refining, and developing Hart's work. Under the sheer volume of competing interpretations of the book the original contexts — cultural and intellectual — that shaped Hart's project can be obscured. This book attempts to sweep aside the volumes of academic criticism and return to ‘Troy I’, revealing the world of post-war Oxford that produced Hart and his famous book. Drawing on personal experience of studying and teaching in Oxford at the time Hart developed The Concept of Law, this book recreates the social and intellectual culture of Oxford philosophy and the law faculty in the 1950s. It traces Hart's early work and influences, within and outside Oxford, showing how Hart developed his picture of philosophy and its potential for enriching the understanding of law. It also lays bare the painful shortcomings of post-war Oxford academia, depicting a world of eccentric dons and intellectual Cyclopses — isolated and closed to broad, interdisciplinary exchange — arguing that Hart did not escape from the limitations of his intellectual world.Less
HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is one of the most influential works of philosophy of the 20th century, redefining the field of legal philosophy and introducing generations of students to philosophical reflection on the nature of law. Since its publication in 1961 an industry of academic research and debate has grown up around the book, disputing, refining, and developing Hart's work. Under the sheer volume of competing interpretations of the book the original contexts — cultural and intellectual — that shaped Hart's project can be obscured. This book attempts to sweep aside the volumes of academic criticism and return to ‘Troy I’, revealing the world of post-war Oxford that produced Hart and his famous book. Drawing on personal experience of studying and teaching in Oxford at the time Hart developed The Concept of Law, this book recreates the social and intellectual culture of Oxford philosophy and the law faculty in the 1950s. It traces Hart's early work and influences, within and outside Oxford, showing how Hart developed his picture of philosophy and its potential for enriching the understanding of law. It also lays bare the painful shortcomings of post-war Oxford academia, depicting a world of eccentric dons and intellectual Cyclopses — isolated and closed to broad, interdisciplinary exchange — arguing that Hart did not escape from the limitations of his intellectual world.
Eric Hayot
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199926695
- eISBN:
- 9780199980499
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199926695.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Though literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe literary history owe a great deal to the languages of originality, novelty, progress, and invention that ...
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Though literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe literary history owe a great deal to the languages of originality, novelty, progress, and invention that form the core of the idea of technological development. No real surprise: putting progress at the center of historicity is one of the things that makes us modern. But if you think like a modern person then it's very hard to ever really make a good case for why someone interested in the history of modern literary aesthetics ought to read the literature of the non-Western world. This book makes that case. It does so by rethinking from the ground up our concepts of literary history and progress, redescribing the history we know (or think we know) in a new language that requires us to be far more worldly and global in our arguments about literary change. To do, so, the book begins with an argument that literature is a world-creating activity. Connecting the cosmographical imagination to the historical shifts in world-view caused by the Columbian discoveries and Copernican revolutions, the book shows how the very notion of the modern is, at heart, a cosmographical social form.Less
Though literature is not a technology, the historical models literary scholars use to describe literary history owe a great deal to the languages of originality, novelty, progress, and invention that form the core of the idea of technological development. No real surprise: putting progress at the center of historicity is one of the things that makes us modern. But if you think like a modern person then it's very hard to ever really make a good case for why someone interested in the history of modern literary aesthetics ought to read the literature of the non-Western world. This book makes that case. It does so by rethinking from the ground up our concepts of literary history and progress, redescribing the history we know (or think we know) in a new language that requires us to be far more worldly and global in our arguments about literary change. To do, so, the book begins with an argument that literature is a world-creating activity. Connecting the cosmographical imagination to the historical shifts in world-view caused by the Columbian discoveries and Copernican revolutions, the book shows how the very notion of the modern is, at heart, a cosmographical social form.
Anna Sun
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691155579
- eISBN:
- 9781400846085
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691155579.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
This chapter presents an overview of how Confucianism has been classified as a world religion in both popular and academic texts over the past century, suggesting that this classification has had a ...
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This chapter presents an overview of how Confucianism has been classified as a world religion in both popular and academic texts over the past century, suggesting that this classification has had a lasting impact on both the popular imagination and academic institutions. It argues that the notion of world religions has become the universally recognized “achievement” that provides model problems and solutions to a community of practitioners. In this case, this community consists of scholars in religious studies, as well as scholars who study Chinese religions in other fields, such as sociology, history, philosophy, and Asian studies. The chapter focuses on the acceptance and implementation of this paradigm in American academia, instead of comparing it to that of another country, such as Great Britain.Less
This chapter presents an overview of how Confucianism has been classified as a world religion in both popular and academic texts over the past century, suggesting that this classification has had a lasting impact on both the popular imagination and academic institutions. It argues that the notion of world religions has become the universally recognized “achievement” that provides model problems and solutions to a community of practitioners. In this case, this community consists of scholars in religious studies, as well as scholars who study Chinese religions in other fields, such as sociology, history, philosophy, and Asian studies. The chapter focuses on the acceptance and implementation of this paradigm in American academia, instead of comparing it to that of another country, such as Great Britain.
Adil E. Shamoo and David B. Resnik
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195368246
- eISBN:
- 9780199867615
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195368246.003.0005
- Subject:
- Biology, Disease Ecology / Epidemiology, Biochemistry / Molecular Biology
This chapter examines some of the ethical dilemmas and issues arising from relationships between higher learning institutions and private industry, including conflicts of interest, research bias, ...
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This chapter examines some of the ethical dilemmas and issues arising from relationships between higher learning institutions and private industry, including conflicts of interest, research bias, suppression of research, secrecy, and the threat to academic values, such as openness, objectivity, freedom of inquiry, and the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. The chapter also provides an overview of the historical, social, and economic aspects of the academic–industry interface and addresses some policies for ensuring that this relationship benefits researchers, universities, industry, and society.Less
This chapter examines some of the ethical dilemmas and issues arising from relationships between higher learning institutions and private industry, including conflicts of interest, research bias, suppression of research, secrecy, and the threat to academic values, such as openness, objectivity, freedom of inquiry, and the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. The chapter also provides an overview of the historical, social, and economic aspects of the academic–industry interface and addresses some policies for ensuring that this relationship benefits researchers, universities, industry, and society.
Alan G. Padgett
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198269854
- eISBN:
- 9780191600517
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198269854.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
In his presentation Alan Padgett analyses and rejects a powerful and attractive ideology (‘myth’) in academia, viz. that the best approach to biblical and religious studies is one that brackets‐off ...
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In his presentation Alan Padgett analyses and rejects a powerful and attractive ideology (‘myth’) in academia, viz. that the best approach to biblical and religious studies is one that brackets‐off our own faith, an assumption that religious faith corrupts scientific research. He suggests as a replacement a post‐modern method that is holistic, humble, and accepting of different faiths, using the Resurrection of Jesus as a focused example.Less
In his presentation Alan Padgett analyses and rejects a powerful and attractive ideology (‘myth’) in academia, viz. that the best approach to biblical and religious studies is one that brackets‐off our own faith, an assumption that religious faith corrupts scientific research. He suggests as a replacement a post‐modern method that is holistic, humble, and accepting of different faiths, using the Resurrection of Jesus as a focused example.
Julie A Gallagher and Barbara Winslow
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252042003
- eISBN:
- 9780252050749
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042003.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians is a collection of eighteen essays written by “nontraditional” women historians, all of whom have won the prestigious Catherine ...
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Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians is a collection of eighteen essays written by “nontraditional” women historians, all of whom have won the prestigious Catherine Prelinger Award. The contributors reflect on connections among their lived experiences, their scholarship, the field of women’s and gender history, and women’s professional lives. Key themes include the significance of mentorship; the fragility of financial stability; the persistence of gendered family demands, biases, and expectations; the anxiety of having to explain gaps in CVs as women endeavor to advance from one career stage to the next. Contributors offer vital lessons into challenges as well as rewards that women encounter as they pursue a life of the mind. They also have much to say about the commitment not only to writing histories of women but also preserving their voices in archives and the importance of financial support that the Prelinger Award provided. Motivated by life experiences and their personal philosophies to be change agents in their families, their workplaces, and in society, all of the contributors have written about and engaged in feminist and social justice activism. Finally, these diverse essays point to instructive and essential realities about women’s lives, the field of women.Less
Reshaping Women’s History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians is a collection of eighteen essays written by “nontraditional” women historians, all of whom have won the prestigious Catherine Prelinger Award. The contributors reflect on connections among their lived experiences, their scholarship, the field of women’s and gender history, and women’s professional lives. Key themes include the significance of mentorship; the fragility of financial stability; the persistence of gendered family demands, biases, and expectations; the anxiety of having to explain gaps in CVs as women endeavor to advance from one career stage to the next. Contributors offer vital lessons into challenges as well as rewards that women encounter as they pursue a life of the mind. They also have much to say about the commitment not only to writing histories of women but also preserving their voices in archives and the importance of financial support that the Prelinger Award provided. Motivated by life experiences and their personal philosophies to be change agents in their families, their workplaces, and in society, all of the contributors have written about and engaged in feminist and social justice activism. Finally, these diverse essays point to instructive and essential realities about women’s lives, the field of women.
Roberto Suro
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520267176
- eISBN:
- 9780520950207
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520267176.003.0015
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
Immigration has reached sufficient size and duration to bring permanent changes to American society, but American society has not fully come to grips with those changes. When the economy is growing ...
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Immigration has reached sufficient size and duration to bring permanent changes to American society, but American society has not fully come to grips with those changes. When the economy is growing and unemployment is down, immigration does not get consistent attention. But when facing an economic crisis and protracted unemployment, immigration generates near hysteria. Many other realms of public policy—education, health care, foreign trade, telecommunications, law enforcement, national security—have been reshaped by big initiatives while the mechanisms that are supposed to regulate migration have muddled along with patchwork responses like border fences and deportation campaigns. In conclusion, this chapter highlights three challenges that seem immediate and compelling. The first involves the abilities of journalists and scholars to describe what is happening. The second involves policy frameworks, and the last relates to the ways our disciplines interact. Changes under way in both journalism and academia create opportunities to address these challenges.Less
Immigration has reached sufficient size and duration to bring permanent changes to American society, but American society has not fully come to grips with those changes. When the economy is growing and unemployment is down, immigration does not get consistent attention. But when facing an economic crisis and protracted unemployment, immigration generates near hysteria. Many other realms of public policy—education, health care, foreign trade, telecommunications, law enforcement, national security—have been reshaped by big initiatives while the mechanisms that are supposed to regulate migration have muddled along with patchwork responses like border fences and deportation campaigns. In conclusion, this chapter highlights three challenges that seem immediate and compelling. The first involves the abilities of journalists and scholars to describe what is happening. The second involves policy frameworks, and the last relates to the ways our disciplines interact. Changes under way in both journalism and academia create opportunities to address these challenges.
Robert Crawford
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199269327
- eISBN:
- 9780191699382
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269327.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This book is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Ever ...
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This book is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Ever since English literary works became the focus of university studies, classroom discussion has shaped attitudes towards verse. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britain, Ireland, and America, this book shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia.Less
This book is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Ever since English literary works became the focus of university studies, classroom discussion has shaped attitudes towards verse. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britain, Ireland, and America, this book shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia.
ROBERT CRAWFORD
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199269327
- eISBN:
- 9780191699382
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269327.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the role of the poet in the academia and in the pursuit of knowledge since the 1750s. It argues that the fruitful links ...
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This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the role of the poet in the academia and in the pursuit of knowledge since the 1750s. It argues that the fruitful links between academia and the poetry condition have developed the figure of the poet in English-language societies since the mid-18th century. It discusses the role of the conception of the modern poet on people's reading and writing.Less
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the role of the poet in the academia and in the pursuit of knowledge since the 1750s. It argues that the fruitful links between academia and the poetry condition have developed the figure of the poet in English-language societies since the mid-18th century. It discusses the role of the conception of the modern poet on people's reading and writing.
ROBERT CRAWFORD
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199269327
- eISBN:
- 9780191699382
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269327.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This chapter examines the so-called scholar-gypsy poets in England during the middle of the 18th century, focusing on Matthew Arnold and Arthur Clough. Arnold is considered the dour Victorian Sage ...
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This chapter examines the so-called scholar-gypsy poets in England during the middle of the 18th century, focusing on Matthew Arnold and Arthur Clough. Arnold is considered the dour Victorian Sage and throughout his career he wrote more and more social reflections and less and less poetry. Clough exemplifies better than any other Victorian writer the coming together of the regulated academic career and the wild poetic fling.Less
This chapter examines the so-called scholar-gypsy poets in England during the middle of the 18th century, focusing on Matthew Arnold and Arthur Clough. Arnold is considered the dour Victorian Sage and throughout his career he wrote more and more social reflections and less and less poetry. Clough exemplifies better than any other Victorian writer the coming together of the regulated academic career and the wild poetic fling.
ROBERT CRAWFORD
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199269327
- eISBN:
- 9780191699382
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269327.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This chapter examines the work of the poet in relation to the connection between poetry and academia. It suggests that poets and academics woo and execrate one another at times. Sometimes poets who ...
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This chapter examines the work of the poet in relation to the connection between poetry and academia. It suggests that poets and academics woo and execrate one another at times. Sometimes poets who work in universities will use the voice of the lecturer and of the poet, and sometimes they may use the voice of the academic in order to defend the voice of the poet. This chapter suggests that poets are not only custodians of inherited knowledge but also witness to the technical and spiritual force which helps preserve poetry as a distinct medium.Less
This chapter examines the work of the poet in relation to the connection between poetry and academia. It suggests that poets and academics woo and execrate one another at times. Sometimes poets who work in universities will use the voice of the lecturer and of the poet, and sometimes they may use the voice of the academic in order to defend the voice of the poet. This chapter suggests that poets are not only custodians of inherited knowledge but also witness to the technical and spiritual force which helps preserve poetry as a distinct medium.
Ronald N. Jacobs and Eleanor Townsley
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199797929
- eISBN:
- 9780199944170
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199797929.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Opinion is increasingly central in American news media, but there has been little systematic attention paid to the institutional spaces of media opinion, or to the role of media commentary in ...
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Opinion is increasingly central in American news media, but there has been little systematic attention paid to the institutional spaces of media opinion, or to the role of media commentary in contemporary civil society. The Space of Opinion fills this gap, offering an insightful and authoritative account of the newspaper op-ed pages, the Sunday morning political talk shows on television, and the evening cable news television lineup. In this major new work, Ronald Jacobs and Eleanor Townsley describe a complex media environment for opinion and commentary. On the one hand, largely because of television, the space of opinion has become more political. On the other hand, because of the continuing presence of print journalism and the proliferation of new opinion formats, there has been a significant expansion in the space of opinion, an open commitment to the principle of diversity, and a clearer route for voices outside the fields of journalism and politics to participate in public discussion and commentary. In order to understand this changing media environment, Jacobs and Townsley investigate who gets to speak in the space of opinion and what kinds of deliberation are found in different opinion formats. They analyze styles of writing, forms of speech, and the types of authority and expertise that media intellectuals mobilize in their commentaries. Offering in-depth analyses of the Enron scandal and the “War on Terror”, they find that each opinion format has developed its own distinctive understanding of politics, journalism, and critique. The Space of Opinion documents ways that this new media landscape has challenged the traditional model of detached journalism, and fundamentally altered the nature of mediated deliberation.Less
Opinion is increasingly central in American news media, but there has been little systematic attention paid to the institutional spaces of media opinion, or to the role of media commentary in contemporary civil society. The Space of Opinion fills this gap, offering an insightful and authoritative account of the newspaper op-ed pages, the Sunday morning political talk shows on television, and the evening cable news television lineup. In this major new work, Ronald Jacobs and Eleanor Townsley describe a complex media environment for opinion and commentary. On the one hand, largely because of television, the space of opinion has become more political. On the other hand, because of the continuing presence of print journalism and the proliferation of new opinion formats, there has been a significant expansion in the space of opinion, an open commitment to the principle of diversity, and a clearer route for voices outside the fields of journalism and politics to participate in public discussion and commentary. In order to understand this changing media environment, Jacobs and Townsley investigate who gets to speak in the space of opinion and what kinds of deliberation are found in different opinion formats. They analyze styles of writing, forms of speech, and the types of authority and expertise that media intellectuals mobilize in their commentaries. Offering in-depth analyses of the Enron scandal and the “War on Terror”, they find that each opinion format has developed its own distinctive understanding of politics, journalism, and critique. The Space of Opinion documents ways that this new media landscape has challenged the traditional model of detached journalism, and fundamentally altered the nature of mediated deliberation.
Barry M. Katz
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262029636
- eISBN:
- 9780262330923
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262029636.003.0005
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Business History
Having demonstrated the increasingly important role of design in the Silicon Valley “ecosystem of innovation,” we turn in this chapter to the academic institutions that have, over the last 60 years, ...
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Having demonstrated the increasingly important role of design in the Silicon Valley “ecosystem of innovation,” we turn in this chapter to the academic institutions that have, over the last 60 years, assumed the task of training the next generation of designers. In order to explore alternative and competing approaches, it examines the philosophies of design education as they evolved in the context of an engineering school at an elite research university (Stanford), a public university with a populist mandate (San Jose State), and an art school (California College of the Arts). In each institution designers had to fight to establish the legitimacy of their curricula against the more established traditions of the fine arts, the applied arts, and the science-based engineering disciplines.Less
Having demonstrated the increasingly important role of design in the Silicon Valley “ecosystem of innovation,” we turn in this chapter to the academic institutions that have, over the last 60 years, assumed the task of training the next generation of designers. In order to explore alternative and competing approaches, it examines the philosophies of design education as they evolved in the context of an engineering school at an elite research university (Stanford), a public university with a populist mandate (San Jose State), and an art school (California College of the Arts). In each institution designers had to fight to establish the legitimacy of their curricula against the more established traditions of the fine arts, the applied arts, and the science-based engineering disciplines.
Mihnea C. Moldoveanu and Roger L. Martin
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195340143
- eISBN:
- 9780199851775
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195340143.003.0004
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Innovation
This chapter shows that business academia can assume leadership in training the high-value decision maker of the future. It demonstrates that the development of high-value decision makers can profit ...
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This chapter shows that business academia can assume leadership in training the high-value decision maker of the future. It demonstrates that the development of high-value decision makers can profit significantly from the methods and skill sets of social scientists themselves, who, by teaching what they do rather than what they know, can greatly enhance the development value of the MBA of the future. It notes that in order to fulfill this potential, a re-conceptualization of the nature of knowledge and learning, and of the role of academics in the production of knowledge and the promulgation of learning, is required.Less
This chapter shows that business academia can assume leadership in training the high-value decision maker of the future. It demonstrates that the development of high-value decision makers can profit significantly from the methods and skill sets of social scientists themselves, who, by teaching what they do rather than what they know, can greatly enhance the development value of the MBA of the future. It notes that in order to fulfill this potential, a re-conceptualization of the nature of knowledge and learning, and of the role of academics in the production of knowledge and the promulgation of learning, is required.
Charles Kurzman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199766871
- eISBN:
- 9780199897414
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199766871.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
American government officials would like academic experts on the Middle East and Islam to help predict the next terrorist attacks. However, terrorism is not easily susceptible to predictive models—it ...
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American government officials would like academic experts on the Middle East and Islam to help predict the next terrorist attacks. However, terrorism is not easily susceptible to predictive models—it is largely the work of small, secretive groups that are constantly adapting to countermeasures. In addition, there is an ethical dilemma in casting suspicion on large groups of potential terrorists and in stoking unnecessary panic among potential victims. A sensible discussion of terrorist threats needs to balance two cherished ideals, security and liberty, without tilting too far in either direction.Less
American government officials would like academic experts on the Middle East and Islam to help predict the next terrorist attacks. However, terrorism is not easily susceptible to predictive models—it is largely the work of small, secretive groups that are constantly adapting to countermeasures. In addition, there is an ethical dilemma in casting suspicion on large groups of potential terrorists and in stoking unnecessary panic among potential victims. A sensible discussion of terrorist threats needs to balance two cherished ideals, security and liberty, without tilting too far in either direction.
Cristina E. Parau
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780197266403
- eISBN:
- 9780191879593
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266403.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Legal Profession and Ethics
This chapter explores the Network Community’s historical antecedents and presents an inventory of its membership and other key resources arisen from networking and constituting the basis of their ...
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This chapter explores the Network Community’s historical antecedents and presents an inventory of its membership and other key resources arisen from networking and constituting the basis of their ambitious expansion. The Community is shown to encompass agents both individual and collective, as well as formal and informal institutions. The core of the Community is made up of elite legal professionals. Associated actors include functionaries in international and supranational organs such as the Council of Europe and the European Commission; an elite minority of national officials and dignitaries; legal academics; officers of philanthropic organizations; even elite media. All these actors network with each other, creating a power resources pool on which they all draw in their pursuit of self-empowering interests, both individual and collective.Less
This chapter explores the Network Community’s historical antecedents and presents an inventory of its membership and other key resources arisen from networking and constituting the basis of their ambitious expansion. The Community is shown to encompass agents both individual and collective, as well as formal and informal institutions. The core of the Community is made up of elite legal professionals. Associated actors include functionaries in international and supranational organs such as the Council of Europe and the European Commission; an elite minority of national officials and dignitaries; legal academics; officers of philanthropic organizations; even elite media. All these actors network with each other, creating a power resources pool on which they all draw in their pursuit of self-empowering interests, both individual and collective.
Howard Wettstein
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199841363
- eISBN:
- 9780199950003
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199841363.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter provides a sketch of the author’s religious development, from a newcomer to Orthodox Judaism in college, to rabbinical school, to renewed scepticism about religious fundamentals, a turn ...
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This chapter provides a sketch of the author’s religious development, from a newcomer to Orthodox Judaism in college, to rabbinical school, to renewed scepticism about religious fundamentals, a turn away from religion and to academic philosophy, and finally, many years later, a return to religious life, albeit without resolution of the epistemological and metaphysical quandaries.Less
This chapter provides a sketch of the author’s religious development, from a newcomer to Orthodox Judaism in college, to rabbinical school, to renewed scepticism about religious fundamentals, a turn away from religion and to academic philosophy, and finally, many years later, a return to religious life, albeit without resolution of the epistemological and metaphysical quandaries.
Tina Haux
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447324089
- eISBN:
- 9781447327974
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447324089.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
Academics are increasingly required to demonstrate their impact on the wider world. The aim of this book is to compare and contextualise the dimensions of impact within the social sciences. Unlike ...
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Academics are increasingly required to demonstrate their impact on the wider world. The aim of this book is to compare and contextualise the dimensions of impact within the social sciences. Unlike most other studies of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework impact case studies, this book includes case studies from three different sub-panels (Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work and Politics and International Relations), which in themselves capture several disciplines, and therefore allows for a comparison of how impact and academic identify are defined and presented. The impact case studies are placed in an analytical framework that identifies different types of impact and impact pathways and places them in the context of policy models. Finally, it provides a comparison across time based on interviews with Social Policy professors who are looking back over 40 years of being involved as well as analysing the relationship between research and policy-making. This long view highlights successes but also the serendipitous and superficial nature of impact across time.Less
Academics are increasingly required to demonstrate their impact on the wider world. The aim of this book is to compare and contextualise the dimensions of impact within the social sciences. Unlike most other studies of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework impact case studies, this book includes case studies from three different sub-panels (Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work and Politics and International Relations), which in themselves capture several disciplines, and therefore allows for a comparison of how impact and academic identify are defined and presented. The impact case studies are placed in an analytical framework that identifies different types of impact and impact pathways and places them in the context of policy models. Finally, it provides a comparison across time based on interviews with Social Policy professors who are looking back over 40 years of being involved as well as analysing the relationship between research and policy-making. This long view highlights successes but also the serendipitous and superficial nature of impact across time.
Uwe Schütte
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780746312988
- eISBN:
- 9781789629415
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9780746312988.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
W. G. Sebald was a literary phenomenon: a German literary scholar working in England, who took up creative writing out of dissatisfaction with German post-war letters. Within only a few years, his ...
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W. G. Sebald was a literary phenomenon: a German literary scholar working in England, who took up creative writing out of dissatisfaction with German post-war letters. Within only a few years, his unique prose books made him one of the most celebrated authors of the late twentieth-century.Sebald died prematurely, aged 57, after the publication of his most celebrated prose fiction Austerlitz. This accessible critical introduction, written by a leading expert, highlights Sebald’s double role as writer and academic. It discusses his oeuvre in the order in which his works were published in German in order to offer a deeper understanding of the original development of his literary writings. In addition to concise but incisive interpretations of the main publications, Schütte demonstrates how Sebald’s critical writings (most of which still await translation) fed into his literary texts and concludes his study with a perceptive assessment of Sebald as a cult author.Less
W. G. Sebald was a literary phenomenon: a German literary scholar working in England, who took up creative writing out of dissatisfaction with German post-war letters. Within only a few years, his unique prose books made him one of the most celebrated authors of the late twentieth-century.Sebald died prematurely, aged 57, after the publication of his most celebrated prose fiction Austerlitz. This accessible critical introduction, written by a leading expert, highlights Sebald’s double role as writer and academic. It discusses his oeuvre in the order in which his works were published in German in order to offer a deeper understanding of the original development of his literary writings. In addition to concise but incisive interpretations of the main publications, Schütte demonstrates how Sebald’s critical writings (most of which still await translation) fed into his literary texts and concludes his study with a perceptive assessment of Sebald as a cult author.
John Gal and Idit Weiss-Gal (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447320197
- eISBN:
- 9781447320203
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447320197.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
This book explores the interface between social work academia and social policy in diverse societies across the globe. It does so by employing a unique cross-national comparative perspective and by ...
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This book explores the interface between social work academia and social policy in diverse societies across the globe. It does so by employing a unique cross-national comparative perspective and by focusing upon a field of academic and professional activity in which engagement in socially-relevant activities and those related to the policy process has particular resonance. Based on survey data on social work academics in 12 countries analysed by country experts in each of the nations, the chapters shed light on the policy engagement of faculty members in schools of social work. The findings indicate that social work academics believe that the academic world should play a role in society and, while the level of engagement is only modest, they report engaging in diverse types of policy-related activities. These are undertaken mainly in the public sphere, focus more on changing the discourse than on offering detailed policy proposals, and are generally conducted in partnership with social workers, social work students, service users and advocacy organizations. The level of engagement is affected by the motivation and competencies of the social work academics, by the support they enjoy from their institutions and the access that they have to the policy process in their countries.Less
This book explores the interface between social work academia and social policy in diverse societies across the globe. It does so by employing a unique cross-national comparative perspective and by focusing upon a field of academic and professional activity in which engagement in socially-relevant activities and those related to the policy process has particular resonance. Based on survey data on social work academics in 12 countries analysed by country experts in each of the nations, the chapters shed light on the policy engagement of faculty members in schools of social work. The findings indicate that social work academics believe that the academic world should play a role in society and, while the level of engagement is only modest, they report engaging in diverse types of policy-related activities. These are undertaken mainly in the public sphere, focus more on changing the discourse than on offering detailed policy proposals, and are generally conducted in partnership with social workers, social work students, service users and advocacy organizations. The level of engagement is affected by the motivation and competencies of the social work academics, by the support they enjoy from their institutions and the access that they have to the policy process in their countries.
