Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy
1st ed. 2013. 2013. xxi, 187 S. 216 mm
Verlag/Jahr: SPRINGER PALGRAVE MACMILLAN; PALGRAVE MACMILLAN US 2013
ISBN: 1-349-47342-1 (1349473421)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-349-47342-7 (9781349473427)
How do humanists speak for and from the humanities in an academy which values them less and less and market-driven approaches more and more? Jeffrey R. Di Leo provides a thorough critique of the higher education crisis and a set of practical and reasonable remedies for shaping the study and practice of the humanities in the academy of the future.Introduction 1. Corporate Literature 2. Humanities, Inc. 3. Paralogical Inquiry 4. Apocalyptic Fear 5. Critical Affiliations 6. Wrangling with Rank 7. Authorial Prestige 8. The Publishing Market 9. The Junkyard of Ideas Coda"Readers should find . . . Corporate Humanities in Higher Education: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy of major importance" Journal of Modern LiteratureJeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA.