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The Idea of the University: Histories and Contexts

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Routledge 2018 OxonDescription: 287pISBN:
  • 9780367194512
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.009 IDE
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Part I: Historicising the Contemporary
1. The Vocation of the Public University
2. The Surplus University
3. Perils and Prospects of the Modern University: African and Asian Contexts in a World-Historical Perspective
Part II: Understanding Contexts
4. Divide and Educate
5. Of Utopias and Universities
6. Audit Cultures and the Indian University as Credit-Capital
7. Of Feudal Intellectual Capital: The History of the New Provincial Universities
Part III: (A) politics in/of the University?
8. Is There a Calling on the Left?
9. The University as Passivity? The Role of Students’ Political Activism
10. The Convergence of Unequals: Struggle for Rights in the University Space
Part IV: Reflections and Memoirs
11. Bearing Witness to the University-‘Idea’: Some Personal Reflections
12. Don’t Study, Be Happy
13. The Presidential Transition
14. University: The State’s Kitchen?

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