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- About this book
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The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.
- About the authors
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Michael O'Sullivan is Associate Professor in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has worked for universities in Ireland, the UK, the US, Japan and Hong Kong. He has published widely in education, literary studies and philosophy.
- Reviews
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“O'Sullivan demonstrates that academic freedom has little meaning if grossly unequal systems dictate who enters and who is barred from the academy. This is a fierce, and timely, defence of the continuing relevance of the idea of the modern university. Despite daunting changes to the global landscape, O'Sullivan reminds us that universities are still only worth the name if they are productive of enlightenment.” (Graham Allen, University College Cork, Ireland)
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-12
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Academic Barbarism: Practice and Transmission
Pages 13-30
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Academic Barbarism, Universities, and Inequality
Pages 31-67
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Academic Barbarism and the Literature of Concealment: Roberto Bolaño and W. G. Sebald
Pages 68-97
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Aaron Swartz, New Technologies, and the Myth of Open Access
Pages 98-119
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
- Authors
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- Michael O'Sullivan
- Series Title
- Palgrave Critical University Studies
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-54761-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137547613
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-54760-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-71447-6
- Series ISSN
- 2662-7329
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 175
- Topics
