Corporate Humanities in Higher Education: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy

ISBN-13: 9781137364616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 187 str.

Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"Readers should find . . . Corporate Humanities in Higher Education: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy of major importance" Journal of Modern Literature

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA.