The Place of Truth at the University

The place of truth at the university has always been elsewhere. Scholarly research can be objective by being non-prejudicial in collecting facts and weighing arguments but can never be neutral in terms of the goals of the research, which must always be established before the research begins and from outside of the research project itself. If the determiners of the goals of the university are not the professors themselves but the society that sponsors their work, it is within this external values framework that the truth of the university must be found. In this issue of Telos, we explore the manifold ways in which the search for truth takes shape within the university today.

Introduction
David Pan

Tired of Science?! Notes on the Relationship between University and Society
Michael Hüther

Reinventing the Humanities
Wayne Hudson

Universities: Truth, Reason, or Emotion?
Greg Melleuish and Susanna Rizzo

Toward a Post-Critical Public Sphere in Germany and the United States
Russell A. Berman

The Place of Truth at the University
Timothy W. Luke

The Sensemaking and Construction of Political Narratives in Academic Settings
Richard T. Marcy and Valerie J. D’Erman

Brand English and Its Discontents: Situating Truth and Value in the University Today
J. E. Elliott

The Paradoxical Academic Cultural Revolution: A Long March to a Capitalist Road
Mark G. E. Kelly

Notes and Commentary

From the Ivory Tower to the Football Stadium: A Rueful Response to Michael Hüther
David A. Westbrook

“Little History”: The Crisis in U.S. Academic History
Joseph W. Bendersky

Dialogues
Wayne Hudson

Reviews

Courageous Confrontations with the Realities of the Lebenswelt
Joseph W. Bendersky

On the Spectacles of Market Society
Johan Wennström