The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.
The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.
Michael O'Sullivan is Associate Professor in English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has worked for universities in Ireland, the UK, the US, Japan and Hong Kong. He has published widely in education, literary studies and philosophy.
1. Introduction
2. Academic Barbarism: Practice and Transmission
3. Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
4. Academic Barbarism and the Literature of Concealment: Roberto Bolano and W. G. Sebald
5. Aaron Swartz, New Technologies and The Myth of Open Access
6. Academic Barbarism and the Asian University: The Case of Hong Kong
7. Conclusion