How the Neoliberalization of Academia Leads to Thoughtlessness

How the Neoliberalization of Academia Leads to Thoughtlessness
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 181
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ISBN-10 : 9781498584807
ISBN-13 : 1498584802
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Download or read book How the Neoliberalization of Academia Leads to Thoughtlessness written by Justin Pack and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universities across the US have committed to a process of neoliberalization that is radically altering higher education: academia is increasingly being run like a business. As a result, the university is becoming less and less a place of wonder, self-cultivation and thinking and instead is becoming more and more a place to specialize, strategize, produce and profit. Students race through coursework to bolster job prospects while facing massive debt. Faculty scramble for the biggest grants and angle for the most prestigious journals. Sink or swim, publish or perish, triumph and win: there is no longer time to think and to wonder. This undermines the opportunity for students to develop into good citizens that can truly think critically and judge carefully. Thinking and judgment are, according to the philosopher Hannah Arendt, the only things that can save us if the powerful machines of science or capitalism begin to work in ways they should not. Arendt saw Nazi Germany use the newest science and the best economic management to systematically kill six million Jews. She saw the disturbing inability of the populace and the intellectuals to capably resist the Nazi machine once it got rolling. Applying Arendt’s insights to modern academia, Pack argues that unless checked, neoliberalization threatens to turn the university into a place that discourages thinking and the development of judgment in favor of hyper-specialization and strategic action.


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