The new treason of the intellectuals : can the university survive? / Thomas Docherty.

By:

Docherty, Thomas, 1955- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781526132758
1526132753
9781526132765
1526132761

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: NEW TREASON OF THE INTELLECTUALS.; Print version:: New treason of the intellectuals.DDC classification:

378.001 23

LOC classification:

LB2322.2

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Summary: This book delivers a damning criticism of the contemporary University system. It argues that the University has become politicised - that its primary purpose has shifted from education to the advancement of market-fundamentalist capital, an ideology that paints society as a war of all against all for individual financial gain. Against this, the book calls for a reconfiguration of the purpose of the University. It evokes the institution's wider ambitions and purposes: extending the range of human possibilities, seeking global justice and promoting democracy. Nothing less than ecological and human survival is at stake. Written by a senior academic and leading opponent of the modern University regime, this book exposes a troubling present while remaining optimistic for the future.

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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 10, 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book delivers a damning criticism of the contemporary University system. It argues that the University has become politicised - that its primary purpose has shifted from education to the advancement of market-fundamentalist capital, an ideology that paints society as a war of all against all for individual financial gain. Against this, the book calls for a reconfiguration of the purpose of the University. It evokes the institution's wider ambitions and purposes: extending the range of human possibilities, seeking global justice and promoting democracy. Nothing less than ecological and human survival is at stake. Written by a senior academic and leading opponent of the modern University regime, this book exposes a troubling present while remaining optimistic for the future.

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