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Philosophical Interventions in Neoliberal Higher Education

Philosophical Interventions in Neoliberal Higher Education

Absher, Brandon

Hardcover

Series: Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society

PhilosophyGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1666939838
ISBN13: 9781666939835
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Mar 19 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In this edited collection, philosophers and critical theorists develop theoretical tools to conceptualize and evaluate the neoliberal university, working together both to interrogate how it reproduces systems of oppression and exploitation and to identify more liberatory and egalitarian alternatives.

Acting and organizing within and against neoliberalized higher education in the Western capitalist world, the international group of scholars included in this volume experience the contradictions and possibilities of the contemporary configuration of the university daily. And yet the crisis in higher education is only one aspect of a much broader social crisis in which neoliberalism and related social inequalities, rapid climate change, de-democratization, rising authoritarianism, war, and genocide interconnect. Edited by Brandon Absher, this volume critiques and intervenes in higher education in the midst of this unprecedented social and natural crisis; at once to expose its structure and inadequacies and to envision an alternative based on the principle of the commons.

What can higher education be, and how might it contribute to a more just, egalitarian, and liberated world?

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