Knowledge and its Enemies: Towards a New Case for Higher Learning
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Table of Contents

List of Tables

xi

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xv

Abbreviations

xvii

Introduction

1

Previous Research

5

Conceptual Approach

17

Aims and Methods

24

Key Propositions

27

Chapter 1: The Origins of the Academy

35

Section A: Early Urban Elites

39

Section B: The Greek Inheritance

43

Section C: Precursors to Modernity

46

Section D: Absolutism and Interdependence

52

Section E: The Symbolic Power of Higher Learning

56

Discussion and Conclusion

61

Chapter 2: Shaping Public Knowledge, States,
and Empires

67

Section A: Preludes to a New Society

71

Section B: Knowledge and Nationalism

76

Section C: A Cognitive and Global Order

80

Section D: Configuring Empires

86

Section E: Hegemonic Crisis

94

Discussion and Conclusion

98