• Contact

  • Newsletter

  • About us

  • Delivery options

  • Prospero Book Market Podcast

  • Catastrophe and Higher Education: Neoliberalism, Theory, and the Future of the Humanities

    Catastrophe and Higher Education by Di Leo, Jeffrey R.;

    Neoliberalism, Theory, and the Future of the Humanities

    Series: Palgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education;

      • GET 20% OFF

      • The discount is only available for 'Alert of Favourite Topics' newsletter recipients.
      • Publisher's listprice EUR 149.79
      • The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.

        62 125 Ft (59 167 Ft + 5% VAT)
      • Discount 20% (cc. 12 425 Ft off)
      • Discounted price 49 700 Ft (47 334 Ft + 5% VAT)

    62 125 Ft

    db

    Availability

    printed on demand

    Why don't you give exact delivery time?

    Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.

    Product details:

    • Edition number 1st ed. 2020
    • Publisher Springer International Publishing
    • Date of Publication 13 December 2021
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9783030624811
    • Binding Paperback
    • See also 9783030624781
    • No. of pages272 pages
    • Size 210x148 mm
    • Weight 381 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations XIV, 272 p. 1 illus. Illustrations, black & white
    • 220

    Categories

    Long description:

    This book asks what it means to live in a higher educational world continuously tempered by catastrophe. Many of the resources for response and resistance to catastrophe have long been identified by thinkers ranging from Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James to H. G. Wells and Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. Di Leo posits that hope and resistance are possible if we are willing to resist a form of pessimism that already appears to be drawing us into its arms. Catastrophe and Higher Education argues that the future of the humanities is tied to the fate of theory as a form of resistance to neoliberalism in higher education. It also offers that the fate of the academy may very well be in the hands of humanities scholars who are tasked with either rejecting theory and philosophy in times of catastrophe—or embracing it.

    More

    Table of Contents:

    1. Introduction.- 2. Education and Catastrophe.- 3. Little Blue Books.- 4. All Publishers are Equal.- 5. Academic Privilege.- 6. The End of Morality.- 7. Post-Literature America.- 8. A Century of Antitheory.- 9. Catastrophic Theory.- 10. Pessimistic Education.- 11. Coda.-

    More