‘Docherty is not only is a brilliant critic of those forces that would like to transform higher education into an extension of the market-place… he is also a man of great moral and civic courage, who under intense pressure from the punishing neoliberal state has risked a great deal to remind us that higher education is a civic institution crucial to creating the formative cultures necessary for a democracy to survive, if not flourish
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– Henry Giroux, Mc Masters University
‘Docherty engages with the secular university in its present crisis, reflecting on its origins and on its role in the future of democracy. He tackles the urgent issue of inequality with a compelling denunciation of the ways of entrenched privilege; he offers a view of governance and representation from the perspective of those who are silenced; and exposes the fundamental damage done to thought by management-speak. Docherty is moral, passionate and committed and this is a fierce and important book.’
– Mary Margaret Mc Cabe, King′s College London
There is a war on for the future of the university worldwide. The stakes are high, and they reach deep into our social condition.
On one side are self-proclaimed modernisers who view the institution as vital to national economic success. Here the university is a servant of the national economy in the context of globalization, its driving principles of private and personal enrichment necessary conditions of ‘progress’ and modernity.
Others see this as a radical impoverishment of the university’s capacities to extend human possibilities and freedoms, to seek earnestly for social justice, and to participate in the endless need for the extension of democracy.
This book analyses the former position, and argues for the necessity of taking sides with the latter. It does so with a sense of urgency, because the market fundamentalists are on the march. The fundamental war that is being fought is not just for scholars, but for a better – more democratic, more just, more emancipatory – form of life.
Choose sides.
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– Henry Giroux, Mc Masters University
‘Docherty engages with the secular university in its present crisis, reflecting on its origins and on its role in the future of democracy. He tackles the urgent issue of inequality with a compelling denunciation of the ways of entrenched privilege; he offers a view of governance and representation from the perspective of those who are silenced; and exposes the fundamental damage done to thought by management-speak. Docherty is moral, passionate and committed and this is a fierce and important book.’
– Mary Margaret Mc Cabe, King′s College London
There is a war on for the future of the university worldwide. The stakes are high, and they reach deep into our social condition.
On one side are self-proclaimed modernisers who view the institution as vital to national economic success. Here the university is a servant of the national economy in the context of globalization, its driving principles of private and personal enrichment necessary conditions of ‘progress’ and modernity.
Others see this as a radical impoverishment of the university’s capacities to extend human possibilities and freedoms, to seek earnestly for social justice, and to participate in the endless need for the extension of democracy.
This book analyses the former position, and argues for the necessity of taking sides with the latter. It does so with a sense of urgency, because the market fundamentalists are on the march. The fundamental war that is being fought is not just for scholars, but for a better – more democratic, more just, more emancipatory – form of life.
Choose sides.
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Table des matières
Introduction: Universities at WarChapter 1: Force
Chapter 2: Debts and Duties
Chapter 3: Citizens
Chapter 4: Of Government and Governance
A propos de l’auteur
Thomas Docherty is Professor of the English and Comparative Literary Studies programme at the University of Warwick.Achetez cet ebook et obtenez-en 1 de plus GRATUITEMENT !
Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 160 ● ISBN 9781473910621 ● Taille du fichier 1.2 MB ● Maison d’édition SAGE Publications ● Lieu London ● Pays GB ● Publié 2014 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 3459864 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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