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How the Neoliberalization of Academia Leads to Thoughtlessness: Arendt and the Modern University

by Justin Pack

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

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Universities across the US have committed to a process of neoliberalization that is radically altering higher education: academia is increasingly being run like a business. As a result, the university is becoming less and less a place of wonder, self-cultivation and thinking and instead is becoming more and more a place to specialize, strategize, produce and profit. Students race through coursework to bolster job prospects while facing massive debt. Faculty scramble for the biggest grants and angle for the most prestigious journals. Sink or swim, publish or perish, triumph and win: there is no longer time to think and to wonder. This undermines the opportunity for students to develop into good citizens that can truly think critically and judge carefully. Thinking and judgment are, according to the philosopher Hannah Arendt, the only things that can save us if the powerful machines of science or capitalism begin to work in ways they should not. Arendt saw Nazi Germany use the newest science and the best economic management to systematically kill six million Jews. She saw the disturbing inability of the populace and the intellectuals to capably resist the Nazi machine once it got rolling. Applying Arendt's insights to modern academia, Pack argues that unless checked, neoliberalization threatens to turn the university into a place that discourages thinking and the development of judgment in favor of hyper-specialization and strategic action.
How the Neoliberalization of Academia Leads to Thoughtlessness: Arendt and the Modern University and Amor Mundi and Overcoming Modern World Alienation
Amor Mundi and Overcoming Modern World AlienationHow the Neoliberalization of Academia Leads to Thoughtlessness: Arendt and the Modern University

  • Author

    Justin Pack

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Lexington Books

  • Published

    November 2018

  • Weight

    441g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781498584791

  • ISBN-10

    1498584799

  • Eden Code

    5287309

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