"This ground-breaking study successfully challenges the traditional tendency to regard Charlotte Bronte as having existed in a historical vacuum, by setting her work firmly within the context of Victorian psychological debate. Based on extensive local research, using texts rangi…
This book examines the origins of higher learning, and then traces education exchange to the aftermath of World War II, when the United States was internationally recognized as the epicenter of critical thinking and scientific discovery. As centers of learning arose in the ancie…
The creation and justification of knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages gives rise to several questions: How is 'foreign' knowledge given authority? What are the mechanisms of legitimation? Are the ascriptions by the sources concerning the origin of knowledge as either inhe…
The creation and justification of knowledge in antiquity and the Middle Ages gives rise to several questions: How is 'foreign' knowledge given authority? What are the mechanisms of legitimation? Are the ascriptions by the sources concerning the origin of knowledge as either inhe…
Until now the history of knowledge has largely been about formal and documented accumulation, concentrating on systems, collections, academies, and institutions. The central narrative has been one of advancement, refinement, and expansion. Martin Mulsow tells a different story. …
"Scholarship and Freedom argues that these two very broad concepts must be thought together, with freedom seen as the enabling condition of scholarship and scholarship as the most refined and disciplined form of such fundamental freedoms as inquiry, thought, and expression. The …
"Scholarship and Freedom argues that these two very broad concepts must be thought together, with freedom seen as the enabling condition of scholarship and scholarship as the most refined and disciplined form of such fundamental freedoms as inquiry, thought, and expression. The …