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Rethinking the university explores and develops key critical debates in the humanities (concerning, for example, postmodernism, New Historicism, political criticism, cultural studies, interdisciplinarity and deconstruction), in the context of the various crises widely felt to be facing academic institutions. -- .

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part one - authorities
1. Van Gogh's shoes or, does the university have two left feet?
2. The 'glasse' of majesty
Part two - institutions
3. Excellence and division: the deconstruction of institutional politics
4. Multiple submissions and little scrolls of parchment: censorship, knowledge and the academy
Part three - Economies and exchanges
5. Bringing criticism to account: economy, exchange and cultural theory
6. Surviving theory, 'as if (it) were dead'
Conclusion

Rethinking the University

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/05/2012
      ISBN13: 9780719087851, 978-0719087851
      ISBN10: 719087856

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Rethinking the university explores and develops key critical debates in the humanities (concerning, for example, postmodernism, New Historicism, political criticism, cultural studies, interdisciplinarity and deconstruction), in the context of the various crises widely felt to be facing academic institutions. -- .

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Part one - authorities
      1. Van Gogh's shoes or, does the university have two left feet?
      2. The 'glasse' of majesty
      Part two - institutions
      3. Excellence and division: the deconstruction of institutional politics
      4. Multiple submissions and little scrolls of parchment: censorship, knowledge and the academy
      Part three - Economies and exchanges
      5. Bringing criticism to account: economy, exchange and cultural theory
      6. Surviving theory, 'as if (it) were dead'
      Conclusion

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