Academia versus the World Outside: Institutionalized Knowledge and Its Discontents

Academia versus the World Outside lays out the givens of the knowledge industry located within the ivory tower, colleges and universities. It then moves outside academia to consider this restricted world the way most people see it. The contrast between these two views of academia explains and is at the basis of the left–right animosity of our day.

The knowledge industry, a creation of the post-Enlightenment modern age along with other industrial and post-industrial enterprises, is based on c...