{"product_id":"university-in-crisis-from-the-middle-ages-to-the-university-of-excellence-9781538174999","title":"University in Crisis: From the Middle Ages to the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs is obvious to the casual newspaper reader, the debt-saddled student, the increasingly precarious university teaching force, the reactionary politician, and the budget-constrained administrator, the entire system of higher education is in crisis. This book brings necessary clarity to contentious debates about the state and future of the university by reconstructing the institution’s history around the theme of crisis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince its origins in medieval Bologna, the university has been a site where humanity has worked out many of the thorniest questions of individual and collective purpose, often in what were described as crisis conditions. This book is not just a history of the university or a survey of contemporary debates, though. It is also an impassioned defence of the university as a privileged institution through which threats to collective self-governance are most acutely felt and from which strategies for its rehabilitation can be most fruitfully developed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: The Past vs. The Future\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: The Student vs. Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Discipline vs. Discipline\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: The Local vs. The Global\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: The Professor vs. The Administration \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: The Educational vs. The Economic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Kant vs. the Managers: Managerialism, Self-Governance, and the Burden of Institutional Reproduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041246511447,"sku":"9781538174999","price":65.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538174999.jpg?v=1750949500","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/university-in-crisis-from-the-middle-ages-to-the-university-of-excellence-9781538174999","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}