Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Academic Barbarism: Practice and Transmission
3. Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
4. Academic Barbarism and the Literature of Concealment: Roberto Bolaño and W. G. Sebald
5. Aaron Swartz, New Technologies and The Myth of Open Access
6. Academic Barbarism and the Asian University: The Case of Hong Kong
7. Conclusion
