Catastrophe and Higher Education. Neoliberalism, Theory, and the Future of the Humanities. 1st ed. 2020.

Autor/in	Di Leo, Jeffrey R.
Titel	Catastrophe and Higher Education. Neoliberalism, Theory, and the Future of the Humanities. 1st ed. 2020.
Quelle	Cham: Springer International Publishing (2020), XIV, 272 S. PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Palgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education
Beigaben	Illustrationen 1
Zusatzinformation	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-3-030-62478-1; 978-3-030-62479-8; 978-3-030-62480-4; 978-3-030-62481-1
DOI	10.1007/978-3-030-62479-8
Schlagwörter	Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungssystem; Bildungspolitik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem
Abstract	"It is impossible to understand the politics of higher education outside of its historical and contemporary contexts. Di Leo has written what may be one of the most important books on higher education of the last few decades. Not only is the book beautifully written, it is superbly informative and theoretically ground-breaking. At a time when the concept of catastrophe moves from science fiction to a dystopian reality, this book offers a mix of critique and hope that allows us to rethink, if not reclaim, from the ashes of a pandemic a new understanding of the reality and promise of higher education." -Henry A. Giroux, Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest and The Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy, McMaster University, Canada This book asks what it means to live in a higher educational world continuously tempered by catastrophe. Many of the resources for response and resistance to catastrophe have long been identified by thinkers ranging from Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James to H. G. Wells and Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. Di Leo posits that hope and resistance are possible if we are willing to resist a form of pessimism that already appears to be drawing us into its arms. Catastrophe and Higher Education argues that the future of the humanities is tied to the fate of theory as a form of resistance to neoliberalism in higher education. It also offers that the fate of the academy may very well be in the hands of humanities scholars who are tasked with either rejecting theory and philosophy in times of catastrophe-or embracing it. Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Education and Catastrophe -- 3. Little Blue Books -- 4. All Publishers are Equal -- 5. Academic Privilege -- 6. The End of Morality -- 7. Post-Literature America -- 8. A Century of Antitheory -- 9. Catastrophic Theory -- 10. Pessimistic Education -- 11. Coda.-.
Erfasst von	Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Update	2022/2