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The Thinking University - A Philosophical Examination of Thought and Higher Education (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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The Thinking University - A Philosophical Examination of Thought and Higher Education (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives, 1
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This book reinvigorates the philosophical treatment of the nature,
purpose, and meaning of thought in today's universities. The wider
discussion about higher education has moved from a philosophical
discourse to a discourse on social welfare and service, economics,
and political agendas. This book reconnects philosophy with the
central academic concepts of thought, reason, and critique and
their associated academic practices of thinking and reasoning.
Thought in this context should not be considered as a merely mental
or cognitive construction, still less a cloistered college, but a
fully developed individual and social engagement of critical
reflection and discussion with the current pressing disciplinary,
political, and philosophical issues. The editors hold that the
element of thought, and the ability to think in a deep and
groundbreaking way is, still, the essence of the university. But
what does it mean to think in the university today? And in what
ways is thought related not only to the epistemological and
ontological issues of philosophical debate, but also to the social
and political dimensions of our globalised age? In many countries,
the state is imposing limitations on universities, dismissing or
threatening academics who speak out critically. With this volume,
the editors ask questions such as: What is the value of thought?
What is the university's proper relationship to thought? To give
the notion of thought a thorough philosophical treatment, the book
is divided into in three parts. The focus moves from an
epistemological perspective in Part I, to a focus on existence and
values in higher education in Part II, and then to a
societal-oriented focus on the university in Part III. All three
parts, in their own ways, debate the notion of thought in higher
education and the university as a thinking form of being.
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