Synopsis
The higher learning in America. A memorandum on the conduct of universities by business men (1918). This book, "The higher learning in America", by Thorstein Veblen, is a replication of a book originally published before 1918. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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Review
Almost a century ago Thorstein Veblen analyzed how Big Business got down to the business of higher education in America. We are fortunate today to have Richard Teichgraeber’s rediscovery of this classic work, enhanced by his keen annotations that help explain the wicked satire of this trenchant social critic.
(John Thelin, University of Kentucky, author of A History of American Higher Education)The republication of Thorstein Veblen's The Higher Learning in America in this new annotated edition—which sorts out the allusions and citations in Veblen's highly allusive writing—will be a tremendous help to scholars, students, and general readers alike.
(Chad Wellmon, University of Virginia)Reading The Higher Learning in America is an exercise in going back to the future. The dreary past of higher education described by Veblen in 1918 seems distressingly similar to its increasingly bleak future under the command of a new generation of leaders once mocked by Veblen as 'captains of erudition.' This splendid annotated edition will introduce a new generation of readers to Veblen's insightful work.
(Benjamin Ginsberg, author of The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters)Richard Teichgraeber’s new edition of Veblen’s classic tract on the early twentieth-century American research university is a remarkable achievement. His extended Introduction not only explores the book’s complex genesis and various levels of meaning, but it raises a host of important issues that confirm Veblen’s continued timeliness as a critic and analyst of higher education. Teichgraeber fully restores Veblen’s work to the academic culture and social values of the era in which it was written, but he also uses The Higher Learning to provide an erudite commentary on the state of the universities a hundred years later.
(John W. Boyer, University of Chicago)Thorstein Veblen's odd, energetic, and idiosyncratic classic The Higher Learning in America, is more pertinent today than it was when it was published over a century ago. This new edition, with Teichgraeber's splendid introduction and deeply informative notes, reintroduce this book into debates it anticipated and still illuminates.
(Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Director, National Humanities Center)About the Author
One of the most influential social scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) wrote numerous books, including The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions and The Instinct of Workmanship: And the State of the Industrial Arts. Richard F. Teichgraeber III is a professor of history at Tulane University. He is the author of Building Culture: Studies in the Intellectual History of Industrializing America, 1867– 1910 and Sublime Thoughts/Penny Wisdom: Situating Emerson and Thoreau in the American Market.
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