Politics of Knowledge: The Commercialization of the University, the Professions, and Print Culture.(Book Review)

Publication: Journal of Popular Culture

Publication Date: 01-NOV-04

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Politics of Knowledge: The Commercialization of the University, the Professions, and Print Culture. Richard Ohmann. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.

In this timely book, Richard Ohmann argues that American higher education and the meaning of publishing, scholarly work, and teaching is changing. From the viewpoint of a graduate student in the late 1950s, through his long career as an English professor at Wesleyan University, Ohmann shares his cultural analysis...

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