The War Between Universities and Disciplines
From the outside, universities look like a single united entity, with many administrative subdivisions – kind of the organizational equivalent of the United States. However, the closer political analogy is actually early 1990s Yugoslavia: at a very basic level, universities are the sites of permanent civil wars between central authorities and the disciplines whose interests they purportedly serve. Disciplines – which, except for law and theology, mostly started their existence outside universities – allowed themselves to be subsumed within universities
October 8, 2014
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