Killing Thinking Death of the University

by Evans, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780826473127
• ISBN10: 0826473121
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Throughout the twentieth century, many critics of bureaucratization have predicted the increasing loss of intellectual creativity through the growth of institutional forms of direction and control. This book argues that this is now occurring in universities--and occurring in ways which suggest that the ability (and space) to think freely will become more and more a matter of access to power and privilege. Mary Evans demonstrates how this is both profoundly anti-democratic and anti-intellectual and provides suggestions for reversing this destructive trend.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	ix
Through the Looking Glass: or what Pierre Bourdieu and Kingsley Amis have in common	1	(28)
The Heart of Darkness: Audit and Compliance	29	(20)
The Language of Learning	49	(26)
Gendered Spaces	75	(28)
Iron Cages	103	(26)
Survival Strategies	129	(26)
Notes	155	(10)
Index	165