Gavin Kitching

Teaching the Humanities in a Fractious World

A Reply to Sceptics

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book the author directly confronts an ever more popular suspicion - that a university education in the humanities and social sciences is actually an 'elitist' indoctrination into 'leftist' or 'liberal' views.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032984018
• ISBN-10: 1032984015
• Artikelnr.: 72487636

Autorenporträt

Gavin Kitching is an internationally recognised and distinguished scholar and researcher in the fields of Third World development, agrarian and rural development, and the philosophy and methodology of social science. He is a retired Professor of Politics at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney Australia. As well as ama fellow of the Australian Social Sciences Academy, who has a lengthy and distinguished record of social science research.

Inhaltsangabe

1. So What? 1 2. Who For? 3. Academics Impotent or Potent? 4. Academics
Pernicious or Virtuous? 5. Universities and Knowledge (and Wisdom?) 6.
Known Unknowns or Unknown Unknowns? 7. 'Critical Thinking' 8. Cool Views 9.
Doubts, Philosophical and Non-Philosophical 10. The Crunch 11. Patriotism
and Me 12. Globalisation and Me 13. 'Political Ignorance' 14. Knowing
Better 15. Patriotism, Globalisation and Me 16. Patriotism and Me, Yet More
17. An Imagined Time Machine 18. How Come? 19. Community and Money 20.
Modernity 1 21. Modernity 2 22. Modernity 3 23. Who's Who 24. Modernity and
Knowledge 25. Modernity and Capitalism 26. Watts Up 27. Nasty Catches 28.
Back to the Campus 29. Really 30. History and Philosophy 31. Words and
Doings 32. Social Relations 33. Another Evil Demon 34. So What? 2 35.
Appendix. Questions and Answers. Select Bibliography