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  • Keywords;: For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, &c.
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  • Authored by a Community of Inquiry* Editors: D. Graham Burnett, Matthew Rickard, and Jessica Terekhov * The “Community of Inquiry” consisted of: Paul Baumgardner, D. Graham Burnett, Kate Yeh Chiu, Jeff Dolven, Michael Faciejew, Thomas Matusiak, Candela Potente, Matthew Rickard, Jessica Terekhov, and Enzo E. Vasquez Toral
  • 2018
  • Published by: Princeton University Press
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An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and culture

The university: The very name evokes knowledge, culture, and the magnificently universal ambition at the heart of this essential institution. Bastions of free inquiry and a free society, engines of social transformation and economic progress, enclosed gardens of ennobling reflection and creation, universities encompass the wisdom of the past and the hope of the future. Or do they?


This critical glossary—written by a group of Princeton graduate students and faculty—defines fifty-eight terms common to academic life in a style that will prick both egos and consciences. From “academia” to “vocation,” “canon” to “peer review,” “discipline” to “methodology,” the book scrutinizes the often stultifying structures of modern disciplinary life, calls out a slavish devotion to “knowledge production” as the enemy of thought, and even dissects the notion of “academic excellence.”


Feisty and darkly funny, passionate and deeply insightful, this book raises hard questions about teaching, research, theory, practice, and academic labor. The result is a must-read dispatch from today’s academic trenches—one that is sure to provoke discussion and debate.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Keywords
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. ix-xvi
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  1. A
  1. Academia
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  1. Amateur
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  1. Art
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  1. Audience
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  1. B
  1. Bibliography
  2. p. 23
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  1. C
  1. Canon
  2. p. 24
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  1. Citation
  2. pp. 25-26
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  1. Committee
  2. p. 27
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  1. Critique
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  1. Department
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  1. Dialectic
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  1. Dictionary
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  1. Discipline
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  1. Discourse
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  1. Education
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  1. Emancipation
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  1. Epistemology
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  1. Erudition
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  1. Excellence
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  1. Experience
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  1. Expertise
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  1. Field
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  1. FTE
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  1. Graduate Student
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  1. History
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  1. Humanities
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  1. I
  1. Intellectual Labor
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  1. Interdisciplinarity
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  1. Interpretation
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  1. Irony
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  1. K
  1. Knowledge Production
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  1. M
  1. Medium
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  1. Metaphysics
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  1. Method
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  1. Methodology
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  1. Model
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  1. New Criticism
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  1. Object
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  1. Occupational Hazard
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  1. P
  1. Peer Review
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  1. Practice
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  1. Profession
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  1. Progress
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  1. Reading
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  1. Regulation
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  1. Rigor
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  1. School
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  1. Science
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  1. Significance
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  1. Subject
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  1. Symposium
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  1. Teaching
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  1. Text
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  1. Theology
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  1. Tradition
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  1. U
  1. University
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  1. V
  1. Vocation
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