Knowledge and the University Re claiming Life 1st Edition by Ronald Barnett, Søren Bengtsen 9781138330894 1138330892

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ISBN 10: 1138330892

ISBN 13: 9781138330894

Author: Ronald Barnett, Søren S.E. Bengtsen

For hundreds of years, knowledge has been central in understanding the university. Over recent decades, however, it is the economic value of knowledge that has come to the fore. Now, in a post-truth world, knowledge is also treated with suspicion and has become a vehicle for ideologies. Knowledge and the University combats all these ways of thinking. Its central claim is that knowledge is of value because of its connection with life. Knowledge is of life, from life, in life and for life. With an engaging philosophical discussion, and with a consideration of the evolution of higher education institutions, this book: Examines ways in which research, teaching and learning are bound up with life; Looks to breathe new life into the university itself; Widens the idea of the knowledge ecology to embrace the whole world; Suggests new roles for the university towards culture and the public sphere. Knowledge and the University is a radical text that looks to engender nothing less than a new spirit of the university. It offers a fascinating read for policy makers, institutional leaders, academics and all interested in the future of universities.

Table of contents:

PART I: The university and life

1. Life in truth and truth in life

2. The real thing

3. Re-placing the humanities

4. Where’s the life in academic knowledge?

Interlude: on life

PART II: The spirit of academic knowledge

5. More than mere debate

6. A will to know

7. Living with darkness

8. Edifying knowledge

9. A culture of lively discourse

PART III: Cultivating knowledge in the university

10. Living reason

11. Widening the knowledge ecology

12. Reaching out

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