The Idea of the University : Histories and Contexts. /Debaditya Bhattacharya.
Material type: TextPublisher number: : Zafaa Books & Distributors | : 313/54F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi.Publication details: , New Delhi : Routledge India , 2018Description: xix,287p. : 24cmISBN: 9780367194512Subject(s): The Surplus University | Prospects of the Modern University | Audit Cultures and the Indian UniversityDDC classification: 378.009 BHAItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Introduction: The University in History: From ‘Idea’ to Impossibility. Part I: Historicising the Contemporary 1. The Vocation of the Public University 2. The Surplus University 3. Perils and Prospects of the Modern University: African and Asian Contexts in a World-Historical Perspective Part II: Understanding Contexts 4. Divide and Educate 5. Of Utopias and Universities 6. Audit Cultures and the Indian University as Credit-Capital 7. Of Feudal Intellectual Capital: The History of the New Provincial Universities Part III: (A)politics in/of the University? 8. Is There a Calling on the Left? 9. The University as Passivity? The Role of Students’ Political Activism 10. The Convergence of Unequals: Struggle for Rights in the University Space Part IV: Reflections and Memoirs 11. Bearing Witness to the University-‘Idea’: Some Personal Reflections 12. Don’t Study, Be Happy 13. The Presidential Transition 14. University: The State’s Kitchen?
This volume traces the historical transformations of the university in medieval Europe and explores current debates on its existence and sustenance in a neoliberal India. It challenges the liberal-humanist ‘ideal’ of academic exchange to inquire into long befuddled debates on the true nature of the modern university.
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