Book description
For the University is a book both about and for the university in the
age of mass and globalized education. It analyses the current problems
facing the university as an institution, and also offers some positive
arguments for a revived and vibrant set of institutional arrangements
and governing principles. This book considers the place of the
university as an important global institution, now in a charged
political and international public sphere. Setting it in a wider economy
and politics, this book focuses on the question of the university in
relation to current and emerging models of democracy. The question of
what the university will be -- rather than it is, was, or might be -- is
at the heart of this book, and Docherty ably traces its history and
present condition in order to offer us a vision for the future. Thomas
Docherty is Professor of English at Warwick University. He has published
on most areas of English and comparative literature from the renaissance
to the present day. He specialises in the philosophy of literary
criticism, in critical theory, and in cultural history in relation
primarily to European philosophy and literatures. Some of his previous
publications include John Donne Undone (Methuen/Routledge, 1986),
Postmodernism (Harvester/Columbia UP, 1993), Aesthetic Democracy
(Stanford UP, 2006) and The English Question (Sussex Academic, 2008).
