LEADER 03447nam 2200493 450 001 9910468232403321 005 20230823002508.0 010 $a3-030-62479-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-62479-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000011645155 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6424402 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-62479-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011645155 100 $a20210327d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCatastrophe and higher education $eneoliberalism, theory, and the future of the humanities /$fJeffrey R. Di Leo 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (XIV, 272 p. 1 illus.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education 311 $a3-030-62478-1 327 $a1. 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.-. 330 $a?It is impossible to understand the politics of higher education outside of its historical and contemporary contexts. Di Leo has written what may be one of the most important books on higher education of the last few decades. Not only is the book beautifully written, it is superbly informative and theoretically ground-breaking. At a time when the concept of catastrophe moves from science fiction to a dystopian reality, this book offers a mix of critique and hope that allows us to rethink, if not reclaim, from the ashes of a pandemic a new understanding of the reality and promise of higher education.? ?Henry A. Giroux, Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest and The Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy, McMaster University, Canada This book asks what it means to live in a higher educational world continuously tempered by catastrophe. Many of the resources for response and resistance to catastrophe have long been identified by thinkers ranging from Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James to H. G. Wells and Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. Di Leo posits that hope and resistance are possible if we are willing to resist a form of pessimism that already appears to be drawing us into its arms. Catastrophe and Higher Education argues that the future of the humanities is tied to the fate of theory as a form of resistance to neoliberalism in higher education. It also offers that the fate of the academy may very well be in the hands of humanities scholars who are tasked with either rejecting theory and philosophy in times of catastrophe?or embracing it. 410 0$aPalgrave studies on global policy and critical futures in education. 606 $aEducation, Higher$xPhilosophy 606 $aEducation and state 606 $aEducation, Higher$xHistory 615 0$aEducation, Higher$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEducation and state. 615 0$aEducation, Higher$xHistory. 676 $a378.001 700 $aDi Leo$b Jeffrey R.$0893323 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910468232403321 996 $aCatastrophe and higher education$92161902 997 $aUNINA