1st Edition
Academia versus the World Outside Institutionalized Knowledge and Its Discontents
Acknowledgements
Part I: The Problem
Chapter 1: Academia’s Science Envy
Chapter 2: Meaning in Academia
Part II: Inside Academia
Chapter 3: Academia’s Imperative to Expand
Chapter 4: Metaphysical Sociology
Chapter 5: Problems of Art History
Chapter 6: Philosophy Isn’t a Discipline, and It Doesn’t Progress
Chapter 7: Austen in the Classroom
Part III: Outside Academia
Chapter 8: The Basis of Knowledge Is Its Opposite
Chapter 9: Knowledge Requires People
Chapter 10: The Everyday Normal
Chapter 11: What Do We Do Now?
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Bruce Fleming has taught at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, the National University of Rwanda, and, for more than 30 years, at the US Naval Academy. He is the author most recently of Democracy’s Achilles Heel: The Rocky Marriage of Relative and Absolute, The End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia, What Does ‘Art’ Mean Now?, The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor, Masculinity from the Inside, and Saving Our Service Academies: My Battle with, and for, the US Naval Academy to Make Thinking Officers.
