The Rise of Neoliberal Philosophy : Human Capital, Profitable Knowledge, and the Love of Wisdom

Absher, Brandon

Lexington Books（2021/08発売）

Lexington Books（2021/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 196 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781793615985
• DDC分類 302.01

Full Description

In The Rise of Neoliberal Philosophy: Human Capital, Profitable Knowledge, and the Love of Wisdom, Brandon Absher argues that the neoliberal transformation of higher education has resulted in a paradigm shift in philosophy in the United States, leading to the rise of neoliberal philosophy. Neoliberal philosophy seeks to attract investment by demonstrating that it can produce optimal return. Further, philosophers in the neoliberal paradigm internalize and reproduce the values of the prevailing social order in their work, reorienting philosophical desire toward the production of attractive commodities. The aim of philosophy in the neoliberal university, Absher shows, has become the production of human capital and profitable knowledge.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Philosophy in the Neoliberal University
Chapter 2: The Performativity of Neoliberal Philosophy
Chapter 3: The One-Dimensionality of Neoliberal Philosophy
Chapter 4: Diversity and Neoliberal Philosophy
Chapter 5: Toward an Alternative Paradigm
Conclusion
Bibliography