Literature and the Crisis in the Concept of the University
Year: 1999
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In the summer of 199 5 an article in the TLS by Daniel Dennett opened with an observation he had made during a recent visit to Oxford: that when he was there in the 1960s he felt that it was a university whose ethos and sense of purpose came from academics and they employed others to administer them. Now, his impression was that, in conformity to a model already long apparent in the USA, they were working for the administration. Yet, he adds, where can any idea of the university reside if not in its academics? This is part of the situation the late Bill Readings has in mind in his polemical book The University in Ruins. This claim is not novel. A. H. Halsey’s The Decline of Donnish Dominion argues that academics are in the process of becoming a new form of proletariat: that is, workers whose labour is owned by others.
Author: Timothy Clark
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4388404607