Full Description
Mike Neary was a renowned critical educator, Professor of Sociology at the University of Lincoln, and a founding member of the Social Science Centre, Lincoln. He died in January 2023, and in the months prior to his death, the editors of this book met with Mike and, with his guidance, worked with him on a collection of his writings. Mike was once asked why he wrote and he responded, «I write for the future» This book gathers some of his key writings to keep alive the critical legacy which Mike's life and work embodied. It contains a body of work written by Mike on his own, with his close collaborators, as well as contributions written about him. The work gathered here in this book attests to Mike's lifelong critical engagement with the work of Karl Marx, and as his work shows, this is an engagement on terms which are uniquely his own, reflecting Mike's unique vision, his deep egalitarianism, his personal warmth, and his critical intellect.
Contents
Contents: Mike Neary interviewed by Stephen Cowden: The Thinginess of Things - Mike Neary: An Introduction to the Work of Karl Marx: Science of Revolution and Revolutionary Science - Mike Neary: Critical Theory as the Critique of Labour - Mike Neary: Pedagogy in Paradise: Higher Learning and the Metamorphosis of a Derelict City - a Rhythmanalysis - Mike Neary and Gary Saunders: Student as Producer and the Politics of Abolition: Making a New Form of Dissident Institution? - Mike Neary: Pedagogy of Hate - Mike Neary and Joss Winn: The Social Science Centre, Lincoln: The Theory and Practice of a Radical Idea - Mike Neary and Joss Winn: Beyond Public and Private: A Framework for Co- operative Higher Education - Mike Neary: Civic University or University of the Earth? A Call for Intellectual Insurgency - Mike Neary: We Stammer (To Be Read Aloud) - Cath Lambert: 'Student as Producer': A Disruptive Theory for Our Times - Glenn Rikowski: Value Vortex Weavings: Karl Marx's Social Time, Labour-Power and Education.
