Simon Wortham

Rethinking the university

Leverage and deconstruction

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Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking the university explores and develops key critical debates in the humanities (concerning, for example, postmodernism, New Historicism, political criticism, cultural studies, interdisciplinarity and deconstruction), in the context of the various crises widely felt to be facing academic institutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 247g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087851
• ISBN-10: 0719087856
• Artikelnr.: 35529698

Autorenporträt

Simon Wortham is Professor of English at Kingston University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part one - authorities 1. Van Gogh's shoes or, does the
university have two left feet? 2. The 'glasse' of majesty Part two -
institutions 3. Excellence and division: the deconstruction of
institutional politics 4. Multiple submissions and little scrolls of
parchment: censorship, knowledge and the academy Part three - Economies and
exchanges 5. Bringing criticism to account: economy, exchange and cultural
theory 6. Surviving theory, 'as if (it) were dead' Conclusion