Can the ivory tower rise above capitalism? Or are the humanities and social sciences merely handmaids to the American imperial order? The Capitalist University surveys the history of higher education in the United States over the last century, revealing how campuses and classrooms have become battlegrounds in the struggle between liberatory knowledge and commodified learning.
Henry Heller takes readers from the ideological apparatus of the early Cold War, through the revolts of ...
Spis treści
Preface
Introduction
1. The Birth of the Corporate University
2. The Humanities and Social Sciences in The Cold War (1945-60)
3. The Sixties
4. The Retreat from His...
O autorze
Henry Heller is a Professor of History at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the author of The Capitalist University (Pluto, 2016), The Birth of Capitalism: A 21st ...