McNeely, Ian F.https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/14312024-03-28T21:37:01Z2024-03-28T21:37:01ZWilhelm von Humboldt and the World of LanguagesMcNeely, Ian F.https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/229682017-11-15T09:42:16Z2011-10-06T00:00:00ZWilhelm von Humboldt and the World of Languages
McNeely, Ian F.
At a time when systematic knowledge of the world’s languages first became possible, Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) cast language as a vehicle to study the human mind and interpret human cultural difference. Long recognized as a canonical theorist, Humboldt also conducted massive empirical research through a global correspondence network bringing him reports from six continents on dozens of languages. He occupied a brief, fascinating moment in world history just before the globalization of knowledge was reshaped by the professionalization of scholarship.
18 pages
2011-10-06T00:00:00ZCurrent Trends in Knowledge Production: An Historical-Institutional AnalysisMcNeely, Ian F.https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/186802018-09-28T16:55:35Z2009-12-02T00:00:00ZCurrent Trends in Knowledge Production: An Historical-Institutional Analysis
McNeely, Ian F.
Building on the author’s recent survey of Western knowledge institutions since antiquity, this article assesses the impact of current trends in information technology, higher education, science, and the environment on knowledge production. Its focus on institutions diverges from conventional histories of ideas, media, and technologies but also from the under- standings of knowledge and information prevalent among economists. It instead identifies patterns by which entirely new institutions of knowledge supersede their predecessors, reconcep- tualizing today’s changes around the fitful process by which the laboratory, broadly understood, outgrows the tutelage of the academic disciplines.
22 pages
2009-12-02T00:00:00ZThe University in Ruins? A Report on KnowledgeMcNeely, Ian F.https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/92232015-06-17T21:50:28Z2009-05-20T04:58:27ZThe University in Ruins? A Report on Knowledge
McNeely, Ian F.
Revisiting Montreal professor Bill Readings’ posthumous critique of the modern university, this talk offers a new framework for understanding both the history of knowledge and changes in its institutions since the end of postmodernism.
2009-05-20T04:58:27ZPlato on a Pommel HorseMcNeely, Ian F.https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/69302015-06-17T21:06:01Z2004-01-01T00:00:00ZPlato on a Pommel Horse
McNeely, Ian F.
A comparison of ancient Greek and nineteenth-century German gymnastics, with lessons on the two cultures of academics and university athletics today.
2004-01-01T00:00:00Z