This book shows the significance of the thinking of philosophers
(and other key thinkers) in understanding the university and higher
education. Through those explorations, it widens and substantially
adds to the emerging philosophy of higher education. It builds on
the historical literature on the idea of the university, and
provides higher education scholars with highly accessible
introductions to the thinking of key philosophers and thinkers,
alerting them to a set of literature that otherwise might not be
encountered. Until very recently, most of the debate on higher
education - both in the public domain and in the scholarly
literature - has been conducted with little regard to the
philosophical literature. This is odd for two reasons. Firstly,
much of the historical literature on the idea of the university -
over the past two hundred years - has been written by philosophers
and their thinking has largely gone unmined. Second, and perhaps
even more importantly, many of the issues in the higher education
debate are either philosophical in their nature, or require
reflective thinking, and there lies to hand huge resources in the
philosophical literature that can help in working through those
issues. Issues such as what is to count as knowledge (in the
university), wisdom, voice, democracy, culture, what it is to 'be'
a student or academic, academic freedom, communication, work and
disciplinarity cry out for the kind of insights that the
philosophical literature - very broadly understood - can offer.
This book attempts precisely to do this, to show how the work of
key thinkers can help in deepening the higher education debate.
Each chapter focuses on an individual thinker, giving both an
insight into the thinker in question and accessibly drawing out
something of their thinking and showing its significance in
understanding the university and higher education. The editors
provide a full-length introduction that marks out this large
territory and prepares the ground for the reader. The book
impressively builds a rich meshwork of careful and thorough
thinking around the university and higher education by way of
introducing 14 important philosophers on timely subjects such as
culture and the university, higher education and democracy, and the
role of the university. The volume is a great contribution to the
important task of deepening the debate about higher education and
the university, through introducing important philosophers in ways
that might help the university and higher education work through
some of the issues and challenges that it is currently facing. As
such, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting to wander
and wonder deeper into the core purposes and possibilities of
higher education in the good companionship of outstanding thinkers
and distinguished academics on these matters. A playground for
philosophical thought and adventure.Rikke Toft Norgard, Associate
Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark 'This book is an excellent
introduction to a wide range of famous thinkers and what they have
to say about the university and higher education today. It goes
beyond the contemporary preoccupation with metrics, based on
managerialism, and takes a much needed philosophical look at what
higher education should be, or should aspire to be.'Assoc. Prof.
Stephen Loftus, Foundational Medical Studies, Oakland University
William Beaumont School of Medicine, USA
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