The Last Professors : : The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, With a New Introduction / / Frank Donoghue.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Donoghue, Frank,
• TeilnehmendeR: Donoghue, Frank.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

"What makes the modern university different from any other corporation?" asked Columbia's Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. "There is more and more reason to think: less and less," he answered.In this provocative book, Frank Donoghue shows how this growing corp...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Preface
• 1. Rhetoric, History, and the Problems of the Humanities
• 2. Competing in Academia
• 3. The Erosion of Tenure
• 4. Professors of the Future
• 5. Prestige and Prestige Envy
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index