What way forward for the contemporary university? Critical University traverses fields in critical theory (Marcuse and Althusser), psychoanalysis (Kristeva and Freud), phenomenology (Husserl), and the philosophy of education (Freire and Hooks) to focus and provoke further discus…
What way forward for the contemporary university? Critical University: Moving Higher Education Forward traverses fields in critical theory (Marcuse, Althusser), psychoanalysis (Kristeva, Freud), phenomenology (Husserl), and the philosophy of education (predominantly Freire and h…
The university, both in its form and the ideas through which it is understood, continues to evolve. In this book, Ron Barnett asks the questions: what is it to be a university? And what might the university become?
Ever since its medieval origin, the concept of the university has continued to change. The metaphysical university gave way successively to the scientific university, and then to the corporate and the entrepreneurial university. This title charts this conceptual development and …