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How the neoliberalization of academia leads to thoughtlessness : Arendt and the modern university / Justin Pack.
Van Pelt Library LB2326.3 .P34 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pack, Justin, 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
- Arendt, Hannah.
- Universities and colleges--Research.
- Universities and colleges.
- Education, Higher--Philosophy.
- Education, Higher.
- Neoliberalism.
- College students--Conduct of life.
- Education, Higher--Moral and ethical aspects.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- v, 173 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
- Summary:
- As the modern university is increasingly run like a business, students and faculty are losing the time and space to wonder and think under the hypercompetitive demands to produce. The goals of critical self-knowledge and good citizenship are being undermined by the demands of profit.
- Contents:
- The rise of the modern research university
- Hannah Arendt on thinking, cognition, and judgment
- The hegemony of science
- Neoliberalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pack, Justin, 1980- author. How the neoliberalization of academia leads to thoughtlessness
- ISBN:
- 9781498584791
- 1498584799
- OCLC:
- 1048933940
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