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 interludes we seize for ourselves.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Our Modern Condition
Chapter 1. What the Pandemic Has Unmasked
Chapter 2. Command Performances
Part II. Alternative Modes and Models
Chapter 3. Finding Refuge and Regeneration in Temporary Autonomous Zones
Chapter 4. Seeking Asylum in Freedom University
Chapter 5. MOOC-topia: A Place for Poetry
Chapter 6. Antiuniversity Now
Part III. Prefigurative Change
Chapter 7. Privatization
Chapter 8. "Thinking Little" (Practice, Not Policy)
Conclusion: In Search of Academic Freedom
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By David J. Siegel

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.

Product details

• Authors: David J. Siegel, Siegel David J.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2023
• EAN: 9781666900439
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-043-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Administration / Higher, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, Organization & management of education, Educational strategies & policy, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Educational administration & organization, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher