LEADER 03888nam 2200685 450 001 9910456443903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-99772-2 010 $a9786611997724 010 $a1-4426-7113-0 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442671133 035 $a(CKB)2420000000003835 035 $a(OCoLC)416402533 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10219016 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000289571 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11220309 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289571 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10386538 035 $a(PQKB)10892622 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00601981 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255111 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671210 035 $a(DE-B1597)464200 035 $a(OCoLC)944178456 035 $a(OCoLC)999371694 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442671133 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671210 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256928 035 $a(OCoLC)958571841 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000003835 100 $a20160922h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBabel and the ivory tower $ethe scholar in the age of science /$fW. David Shaw 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2005. 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-8486-9 311 $a0-8020-7998-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. The Prophet and the Scholar: Two Paths to Knowledge -- $t2. The Scholar's Wager: The Lottery of Higher Learning -- $t3. The Scientist's Knowledge: The Genius of Discovery -- $t4. The Scholar's Knowledge: The Conversation of the Learned -- $t5. Contemplative Knowledge; A Secret Discipline -- $t6. Practical Knowledge: Prometheus to Faust -- $t7. Personal Knowledge: The Lifeblood of Learning -- $t8. From Maps to Models: Closed and Open Knowledge -- $t9. Socratic Mentors: Proving Truth by Living It -- $t10. Prophet, Rebel, Poet: The Scholar's Hidden Knowledge -- $t11. From Ivory Tower to Babel: The Secret of the Maze -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex -- $tBackmatter 330 $aTorn between the competing forces of scholarship as a profession and scholarship as a calling - between Babel and the Ivory Tower - the modern academic faces a dilemma: should she or he try to preserve the soul of higher education by cultivating the Muse of personal knowledge, or renounce the Muse and imitate a technician?Having come to the end of his own scholarly career, W. David Shaw felt out of place in the technological realm academia has become - where scholars increasingly model their work on that of scientists rather than the classical thinkers of the past, and where original ideas often only alienate the scholar, rather than enrich. Thus, Babel and the Ivory Tower is as much a eulogy as an elegy.Shaw reflects on the changes that have taken place in the academic sphere while philosophically enlarging our stock of fresh ideas about the competing claims of maps and models and open and closed capacities in higher learning. This is a fascinating and illuminating discussion of liberal and contemplative scholarship and adds significantly to the growing body of contemporary philosophical literature. 606 $aLearning and scholarship 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLearning and scholarship. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of. 676 $a001.2 700 $aShaw$b W. David$g(William David),$089641 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456443903321 996 $aBabel and the ivory tower$92465110 997 $aUNINA