This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market on the other. Its outspoken thesis posits that seemingly irresistible institutional pressures are betraying a core principle of the Enlightenment: that the free pursuit of knowledge is of the highest value in its own right. As market principles are forced on universities, inducing a neoteric culture of managerialism, many worry that the very characteristics that made European higher education in particular such a success are being eroded and...
This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market o...
This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market on the other. Its outspoken thesis posits that seemingly irresistible institutional pressures are betraying a core principle of the Enlightenment: that the free pursuit of knowledge is of the highest value in its own right. As market principles are forced on universities, inducing a neoteric culture of managerialism, many worry that the very characteristics that made European higher education in particular such a success are being eroded and...
This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market o...
This edited collection brings together international authors to discuss the meaning and purpose of higher education in a "post-truth" world. The essays philosophically examine the post-truth environment and its impact on education with respect to our most basic ideas of what universities, research and education are or should be.
This edited collection brings together international authors to discuss the meaning and purpose of higher education in a "post-truth" world. The essay...