“Science as a Vocation” describes an ideal of scholarship for a vanished world. Images of the past university still color our idea of the university. Weber dispelled illusions about the university of his own time, and pointed to its cruelty and irrationality. Veblen did something similar for the American university of his time, defended a similar ideal, and foresaw the effects of disciplinarization and the quantification of academic life. They both provide insights into the ways in which the autonomy of academic inquiry has been transformed, and the price that has been paid for the present forms of autonomy. But a consideration of these changes also reveals the reasons for the change in academic values over the last century and what has been lost.

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“职业”之路：韦伯和凡勃伦论学术的无目的性

“作为职业的科学”描述了一个消失的世界的学术理想。过去大学的形象仍然影响着我们对大学的看法。韦伯消除了对他那个时代的大学的幻想，并指出它的残酷和非理性。凡勃伦为他那个时代的美国大学做了类似的事情，捍卫了类似的理想，并预见了学科化和学术生活量化的影响。它们都提供了对学术探究自治的转变方式以及为当前形式的自治所付出的代价的见解。但考虑到这些变化，也揭示了上个世纪学术价值观变化的原因和丢失的东西。