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The Human Vocation: An Autobiography of Higher Education

Author(s) -

John McMurtry

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

nordicum-mediterraneum

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1670-6242

DOI - 10.33112/nm.3.2.14

Subject(s) - disconnection , action (physics) , biography , sociology , psychology , pedagogy , epistemology , aesthetics , philosophy , art , political science , law , literature , physics , quantum mechanics

To be honest, I backed into the academic profession after trying almost everything else. Until then, I perceived the academic’s work as a disconnection in symbolic spheres, "merely academic". Only as I came to recognise that concepts are the governors of action did I realize that the real action was thinking through the life-blind programs I saw all around me. Since thinking through is the vocation of the university, that is where I ended up. But I am getting ahead of myself.

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