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Universities at War (Hardcover)
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Universities at War (Hardcover)
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"Docherty is not only is a brilliant critic of those forces that
would like to transform higher education into an extension of the
market-place... he is also a man of great moral and civic courage,
who under intense pressure from the punishing neoliberal state has
risked a great deal to remind us that higher education is a civic
institution crucial to creating the formative cultures necessary
for a democracy to survive, if not flourish." - Henry Giroux,
McMasters University "Docherty engages with the secular university
in its present crisis, reflecting on its origins and on its role in
the future of democracy. He tackles the urgent issue of inequality
with a compelling denunciation of the ways of entrenched privilege;
he offers a view of governance and representation from the
perspective of those who are silenced; and exposes the fundamental
damage done to thought by management-speak. Docherty is moral,
passionate and committed and this is a fierce and important book."
- Mary Margaret McCabe, King's College London There is a war on for
the future of the university worldwide. The stakes are high, and
they reach deep into our social condition. On one side are
self-proclaimed modernisers who view the institution as vital to
national economic success. Here the university is a servant of the
national economy in the context of globalization, its driving
principles of private and personal enrichment necessary conditions
of 'progress' and modernity. Others see this as a radical
impoverishment of the university's capacities to extend human
possibilities and freedoms, to seek earnestly for social justice,
and to participate in the endless need for the extension of
democracy. This book analyses the former position, and argues for
the necessity of taking sides with the latter. It does so with a
sense of urgency, because the market fundamentalists are on the
march. The fundamental war that is being fought is not just for
scholars, but for a better - more democratic, more just, more
emancipatory - form of life. Choose sides.
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