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"Torn between the competing forces of scholarship as a profession and scholarship as a calling - between Babel and the Ivory Tower - the modern academic faces a dilemma: should she or he try to preserve the soul of higher education by cultivating the Muse of personal knowledge, or renounce the Muse and imitate a technician?" "Having come to the end of his own scholarly career, W. David Shaw felt out of place in the technological realm academia has become - where scholars increasingly model their work on that of scientists rather than that of the classical thinkers of the past, and where original ideas often only alienate scholars, rather than enrich them. Thus, Babel and the Ivory Tower is as much a eulogy as an elegy."--BOOK JACKET.

History of Eastern Europe --- Europe, Central --- Historical geography --- History --- 940 --- 912 <09> <4> --- 91 <09> --- #BIBC:CANADIANA 2002 --- Geschiedenis van Europa, van het Westen, van het Avondland --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Geschiedenis van ...--Europa --- Aardrijkskunde. Geografie--Geschiedenis van ... --- Europe, Eastern --- 940 Geschiedenis van Europa, van het Westen, van het Avondland --- Learning and scholarship. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Learned institutions and societies --- Research --- Scholars --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- 940 History of Europe. History of the West --- History of Europe. History of the West --- Aardrijkskunde. Geografie--Geschiedenis van .. --- Aardrijkskunde. Geografie--Geschiedenis van --- Europe, Central - Historical geography - Maps --- Europe, Central - History --- Europe, Central - History. --- Europe centrale --- Géographie historique --- Histoire --- History.