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The Capitalist University The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States, 1945-2016

By Henry Heller

Book information

Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780745336589, 9781783719754, 9781783719778, 9781783719761
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7288392 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
272\273
Topic
Education
Time added
2021-09-21 16:16:16

Description

This work surveys the history of American higher education from the early Cold War through the revolts of the 1960s and on to the age of postmodernism, neoliberal economics and academic capitalism. Over the course of this period it demonstrates that the humanities and social science disciplines have largely served as handmaids to American liberalism, capitalism and imperialism. Universities today have become battlegrounds in the struggle between those who seek to subordinate learning completely to capital and those who aspire to liberate knowledge from the shackles of commodified capitalism. Cover Contents Preface Introduction 1 The Birth of the Corporate University 2 The Humanities and Social Sciences in the Cold War (1945-1960) 3 The Sixties 4 The Retreat from History (1980-2008) 5 The Neoliberal University Notes Bibliography Index

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