Academic Agonies and How to Avoid Them:
Advice to Young People on Their Way to Academic Careers
Joseph Agassi
© Joseph Agassi, Published 2020
Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Blacksburg, VA
Edited by James H. Collier
TABLE OF CONTENTS
◈ Academic Agonies and How to Avoid Them, Joseph Agassi (PDF 3.2 MB)
❧ 1. The Publisher to the Learned Reader
❧ 2. The Author to the Hurried Reviewer
❧ 3. The Author to the Student Counselor
❧ 4. The Author to the Bewildered Reader
❧ 5. P. S. My Advice in Brief
❧ 1. Anything Wrong? Not Really
❧ 2. A View From the Periphery: Academic Mystique
❧ 3. A View From the Administrative Office: Academic Business
❧ 4. A View From Within: Academic Muddling Through
❧ 5. A View in Perspective: Academic Traditions
❧ 6. Student Agonies: Classes, Assignments and Examinations
❧ 7. Teaching Agonies: Courses and Students
❧ 8. Research Agonies: Keeping Abreast, Publication-Pressure, and the Drive for Recognition
❧ 9. Social And Organizational Agonies: Colleagues and Administrators; Chores
❧ 10. The Aims and Subtle Methods of Academic Intrigue. Or, if You Have a Conscientious Academic for a Friend, Who Needs an Enemy
❧ 1. The Tyranny of the Pointless Details. Or, Some of My Best Friends are Pseudo-Scholars
❧ 2. Boredom as Pseudo-Scholarship
❧ 3. Pseudo-Scholarship as Cowardice
❧ 4. Cowardice Masked as Pomposity and Hostility
❧ 5. Cowardice Masked as Dedication and Loyalty
❧ 6. Cowardice Masked as Humility
❧ 7. Cowardice Masked as Responsibility
❧ 8. A Favorite Sport: Kicking Colleagues While They are Lying Down
❧ 9. The Natural History of Intellectual Courage
❧ 10. Intellectual Courage in Education and in Research
❧ 1. How to Avoid Professional Mystique Without Loss of Self-Esteem
❧ 2. How to Avoid the Academic Chores Without Being Inefficient
❧ 3. How to Avoid Memory Work Without Being Ignorant
❧ 4. Training in Dialectics, The Supreme Art of the True Scholar
❧ 5. Personal Adjustments on the Way to Becoming a Dialectician
❧ 6. Social Adjustments on the Way to Becoming a Dialectician
❧ 7. Learning to Write Surveys, Articulate Views and Stick Out One’s Neck
❧ 8. Learning to Write and Speak With Ease
❧ 9. Middle-Range Prescriptions: How to Reform Academe
❧ 10. Intellectual Courage and Integrity
❧ 1. The Academic and the University Administration
❧ 2. The Academic and the Economy
❧ 3. The New Renaissance of Learning
❧ 4. Specialization and Proliferation
❧ 5. Science and Technology
❧ 6. Natural and Social Science
❧ 7. Science and the Arts
❧ 8. The Public, the Educated Lay People, and the Intellectual Elite
❧ 9. The Individual and the Academic Community
❧ 10. The Open Future
❧ The Aims and Structure of Academe
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