The sociology of intellectual life
Subtitle: the career of the mind in and around academy
By: Steve Fuller
Publisher: SAGE; Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781412928380; 9781412928397
Subjects: Intellectual life; Philosophy; Sociology of Knowledge; Learning and scholarship; College teachers
Description: Steve Fuller outlins a social theory of knowledge for the 21st century. With characteristic subtlety and verve, he deals directly with a world in which it is no longer taken for granted that universities and academics are the best placed and people to embody the life of the mind.