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But Clark is shrewd in charting one aspect of academic charisma — namely, the importance of asceticism in creating an aura of greatness.
Today, academic charisma — and the ascetic life of scholarship that goes with it — retains a central place in the life of universities.
The mixed inheritance of the modern university is the subject of a new book with the somewhat oxymoronic title "Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University," by William Clark, a historian who has spent his academic career at both American and European universities.
William Clark's most recent work, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University, is one of the first books to take on the daunting task of charting the evolution of academics in the western world.
Sheldon Rothblatt, professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Berkeley writes in a review for the American Scientist: In almost any way that one can imagine, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University is an astonishing book.
The October 23 issue of the New Yorker has a fascinating review by Anthony Grafton of William Clark's Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University: Clark thinks that the modern university, with its passion for research, prominent professors, and, yes, black crêpe, took shape in Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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