Screen LibraryThe interlude in academe : reclaiming time and space for intellectual life /
"The academy, once celebrated as society's vital center of intellectual life, has become in many respects a business enterprise whose primary concern is to keep itself in business, leaving the culture of ideas to languish. We might recover - or create - it in interstitial spaces and in int...
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Lexington Books,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham, MD : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"The academy, once celebrated as society's vital center of intellectual life, has become in many respects a business enterprise whose primary concern is to keep itself in business, leaving the culture of ideas to languish. We might recover - or create - it in interstitial spaces and in interludes we seize for ourselves"-- |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 173 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-167) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781666900439 1666900435 |
| Index Number: | LA227 |
| CLC: | G649.712.9 |
| Call Number: | G649.712.9/S571 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Part 1. Our Modern Condition. What the Pandemic Has Unmasked -- Command Performances -- Part 2. Alternative Modes and Models. Finding Refuge and Regeneration in Temporary Autonomous Zones -- Seeking Asylum in Freedom University -- MOOC-topia: A Place for Poetry -- Antiuniversity Now -- Part 3. Prefigurative Change. Privatization -- "Thinking Little" (Practice, Not Policy) -- Conclusion: In Search of Academic Freedom. |