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Not long ago, it was understood that universities and culture were intimately related. However, to a large extent, that understanding has faded. Culture and the University confronts this situation. Written by three leading scholars of higher education and the philosophy of higher education, the book opens the debate about the cultural purpose of universities and higher education. The authors argue that the university should be and can be an institution of culture, of great cultural significance in the digital age, and exercise cultural leadership in society. This wide-ranging and polemic text addresses a range of subjects including environmentalism, citizenship, post-truth, the ethical implications of technology and feminist philosophy. The authors build on the work of key philosophers of the university from Aristotle, Nietzsche and Heidegger to Donna Haraway, Terry Eagleton and Martha C. Nussbaum to conceive of an entirely modern vision of the university. This is a must-read for anyone with an interest in the future of higher education and the university.
Contents
Introduction
1. Whatever Happened to the University for Culture?
Part I: Warring cultures and a universal culture - (Ronald Barnett, University College London, UK)
2. The Cultural Crisis of the University
3. Culture Wars: Multiplication and (possible) Re-unification
4. A Common Culture - No and Maybe
5. For the University and the World: a Culture of the Earth
Part II: Designing for cultural places - (Rikke Toft Nørgård, Aarhus University, Denmark)
6. Placeful Cultures and Cultural Places
7. The Atmospheric University and Cultural Atmospheres
8. Cultures for Collective Visioning and Future-Making
9. Future-Scaping Alternative Universities
Part III: Within and beyond culture - (Søren Bengtsen, Aarhus University, Denmark)
10. Higher Education as Cultural Formation
11. Cultural Leadership
12. The Indivisible
13. Beyond Culture
Part IV: Dialogical Imaginings
14. University Culture as Force, Coexistence, Endeavour and Entanglement Rikke Nørgård
15. A University of One's Own Søren Bengtsen
16. An Ecological Culture for a Non-Comprehending World Ronald Barnett
Endnote: Uniting the University and Even the Earth: the Twin Cultures
Bibliography
Index
