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Understanding knowledge creation : intellectuals in academia, the public sphere and the arts / edited by Nikita Basov and Oleksandra Nenko.

Title
Understanding knowledge creation : intellectuals in academia, the public sphere and the arts / edited by Nikita Basov and Oleksandra Nenko.
Publication
Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Basov, Nikita.
  • Nenko, Oleksandra.
Description
xix, 208 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
"Understanding Knowledge Creation: Intellectuals in Academia, the Public Sphere and the Arts brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and cultures and involves them into a multi-dimensional dialogue on the mechanisms of knowledge creation in the present-day society with a specific focus on intellectuals as knowledge creators in three main arenas of their activity: the 'institutionalized' arena - academia - and two adjacent arenas: the public sphere and the arts."--Publisher's website.
Series Statement
  • At the interface, probing the boundaries, 1570-7113 ; v. 78
  • Critical issues series 'Intellectuals, Knowledge, Power'
Uniform Title
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 78.
Subject
  • 2000-2099
  • Knowledge management
  • Intellectual life > History > 21st century
  • Education, Higher > International cooperation
  • Diffusion of innovations
  • Knowledge Management
  • Diffusion of Innovation
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part 1: Intellectuals in Academia: Institutionalized Knowledge Creation. The Rationalization of Academia: From Bildung to Production --The Democratic Intellect Reconsidered. Part 2: Intellectuals in the Public Sphere: 'Organic' Knowledge Creation. Post-Apartheid Organic Intellectual and Knowledge Creation -- Walter A. Rodney and the Instrumentalist Construction and Utilization of Knowledge -- Possibilities and Risks of Influencing Public Knowledge: The Case of Hrant Dink -- Not a Sin, but a Side Effect: Collaboration and Knowledge Creation by the Organic Intellectuals. Part 3: Intellectuals in the Arts: Emotional Knowledge Creation. Art and the Passion of Intellect -- Emotional Intelligence: Literature, Ethics and Affective Cognition in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace -- Aesthetic Emotional Experience: From Eye Irritation to Knowledge.
ISBN
  • 9789042034624
  • 9789401207447 (e-book)
OCLC
780332032
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library