The Alienated Academic The Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University /

• Main Author: Hall, Richard (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Marxism and Education
• Subjects: Educational policy.; Education and state.; Higher education.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Education-Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Higher Education.; Social Theory.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.

Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are repurposed for value. Discourses of entrepreneurship, impact and excellence, realised through competition and the market, mean that academics and students are increasingly alienated from themselv...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Awakenings
• PART I. The Terrain of Academic Labour
• Chapter 2. Crisis
• Chapter 3. Alienation
• PART II. The Terrain of Academic Alienation
• Chapter 4. Knowledge
• Chapter 5. Profession
• Chapter 6. Weltschmerz
• Chapter 7. Identity
• PART III. A Terrain for Overcoming Alienation
• Chapter 8. Indignation
• Chapter 9. Autonomy. .