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Kenneth A. Loparo
Corporate Humanities in Higher Education [PDF ebook]
Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy

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How do humanists speak for and from the humanities in an academy which values them less and less and market-driven approaches more and more? Jeffrey R. Di Leo provides a thorough critique of the higher education crisis and a set of practical and reasonable remedies for shaping the study and practice of the humanities in the academy of the future.

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Table of Content

Introduction 1. Corporate Literature 2. Humanities, Inc. 3. Paralogical Inquiry 4. Apocalyptic Fear 5. Critical Affiliations 6. Wrangling with Rank 7. Authorial Prestige 8. The Publishing Market 9. The Junkyard of Ideas Coda

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Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 187 ● ISBN 9781137361530 ● File size 1.5 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 3091863 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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