Introduction -- Academic barbarism : practice and transmission -- Academic barbarism, universities, and inequality -- Academic barbarism and the literature of concealment: Roberto Bolaño and W.G. Sebald -- Aaron Swartz, new technologies, and the myth of open access -- Academic barbarism and the Asian university: the case of Hong Kong -- Notes towards an educational transformation
Summary
The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
English
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