文档介绍：SUNY Series in Philosophy of Education Philip L. Smith, Editor BRUCE WILSHIRE The Moral Collapse of the University Professionalisrn, Purity, and Alienation STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS Published b y State University of New York Press, Albany ? 1990 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address State University of New York Press, 90 Stale Street, Suite 700, Albany, NY 12207 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wilshire, Bruce W. The moral collapse of the university ; professionalism, purity, alienation I Bruce Wilshire. p. em. -(SUNY series in the philosophy of education) Includes index. ISBN 0-7914-0196-0.-ISBN 0-7914-0197-9 (pbk.) I. Education, Higher-United States-Aims and objectives. 2. College teaching-United States-Evaluation. 3. Professional socialization-United States. I. Title. II. Series 1990 -dc20 10 9 8 7 89-4455 CIP To Rebekah Lott Wilshire and the memory of Esther Lott Barth CONTENTS Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction Part One The Academic Professional: Problems of Self-Knowledge and Education Chapter I Alienation Chapter II What is the Educating Act? Chapter Ill Crisis of Authority and Identity: The Inevitability of Professionalism Chapter IV The Professionalization of the University Part Two Academic Professionalism and Identity: Rites of Purification and Exclusion Chapter V A Specimen Case of Professionalizing a Field of Learning: Philosophy Chapter VI Eccentricities and Distortions of Academic Professionalism Chapter VII Academic Professionalism as a Veiled Purification Ritual 3 21 35 59 99 129 159 Chapter VIII Pollution Phenomena: John Dewey's Encounter with Body-Self Pa