Academia in crisis : dystopic optimism and postalgic realism in university life / Leonidas Donskis [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donskis, Leonidas, author.

Contributor:

Donskis, Leonidas, editor.

Series:

Value inquiry book series ; Volume 335.

Value Inquiry Book Series ; Volume 335

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--Europe.

Education, Higher.

Universities and colleges--Europe--Planning.

Universities and colleges.

Europe--Intellectual life--21st century.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2019

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Academia is standing at a junction in time. Behind lies the community of the curious, ahead the mass and the market. This book joins in a growing stream of works that explore the vicissitudes of present-day European universities in what Bauman coined as liquid times. Here, a number of concerned (engaged) European scholars attempt to defend and brush up academic core values and practices, starting from their own life worlds and positions in higher education. They share the view that there is no point in turning back, nor in mechanically marching straight on. Above all, they uphold that there is no alternative to treasuring academia as a space for thinking together. Hopefully the fruit of this sine qua non invites to think with, and envision academic activism. Contributors are Samuel Abraham, Stefano Bianchini, Simon Charlesworth, Leonidas Donskis, Frans Kamsteeg, Joost van Loon, Ida Sabelis, Tamara Shefer and Harry Wels.

Contents:

Introductory thoughts / Tamara Shefer

Toward an educational dystopia? : liquid evil, TINA, and post-academic university / Leonidas Donskis

Academic homecoming : stories from the field / Frans Kamsteeg

Universities as laboratories : internationalisation and the liquidity of national learning / Stefano Bianchini

Liberal arts to the rescue of the bachelor's degree in Europe / Samuel Abraham

Academia in the fast lane vs. organisational ethnography and the logic of slow food / Harry Wels

Timescapes in academic life : cubicles of time control / Ida Sabelis

A nomad of academia : a thematic autobiography of privilege / Joost van Loon

The truth is out there : "eEducated fo' bollocks. Uni's just institutional daylight robbery' : universities in crisis? What's new? / Simon J. Charlesworth

Epilogue / Ida Sabelis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004402034

9004402039

OCLC:

1492975860

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004402034 DOI