Understanding knowledge creation : intellectuals in academia, the public sphere and the arts

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    • Basov, Nikita
    • Nenko, Oleksandra

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Understanding knowledge creation : intellectuals in academia, the public sphere and the arts

edited by Nikita Basov and Oleksandra Nenko

(At the interface : probing the boundaries / Robert Fisher, series editor, v. 78)

Rodopi, 2012

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Understanding Knowledge Creation: Intellectuals in Academia, the Public Sphere and the Arts brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and cultures and involves them into a multi-dimensional dialogue on the mechanisms of knowledge creation in the present-day society with a specific focus on intellectuals as knowledge creators in three main arenas of their activity: the 'institutionalized' arena - academia - and two adjacent arenas: the public sphere and the arts.

Table of Contents

Introduction Nikita Basov and Oleksandra Nenko: Intellectuals and the Transformation of Knowledge Creation Intellectuals in Academia: Institutionalized Knowledge Creation Jeroen van Andel: The Rationalization of Academia: From Bildung to Production James Moir: The Democratic Intellect Reconsidered Intellectuals in the Public Sphere: 'Organic' Knowledge Creation Sechaba Mahlomaholo and Vhonani Netshandama: Post-Apartheid Organic Intellectual and Knowledge Creation Tunde Adeleke: Walter A. Rodney and the Instrumentalist Construction and Utilization of Knowledge Georg F. Simet: Possibilities and Risks of Influencing Public Knowledge: The Case of Hrant Dink Olga Procevska: Not a Sin, but a Side Effect: Collaboration and Knowledge Creation by the Organic Intellectuals Intellectuals in the Arts: Emotional Knowledge Creation Carlos David Garcia Mancilla: Art and the Passion of Intellect Claire Heaney: Emotional Intelligence: Literature, Ethics and Affective Cognition in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace Oleksandra Nenko: Aesthetic Emotional Experience: From Eye Irritation to Knowledge Conclusion Nikita Basov: Knowledge Creation in the Intellectual Networks Notes on Contributors

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