Simon Wortham

Rethinking the university (eBook, PDF)

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. The analysis of the characteristic features of today's university is guided by a close reading of Derrida's work on the question of the academic institution, particularly with regard to the motifs of leverage and disorientation.

This important topic has been the subject of heated debate in recent years and Rethinking the university offers clear and concise summaries of current work in the field as well as exploring original and challenging lines of enquiry on a number of issues of contemporary concern. In particular, Wortham argues that while Derrida's image of a university 'walking on two feet' presents us with a potentially paralysing problem, nevertheless it also enables a strong affirmation of the possibilities of academic life, work and effort.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526130808
• Artikelnr.: 54532117

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