Culture and the university : education, ecology, design / Ronald Barnett, Soren S.E. Bengsten, and Rikke Toft Nogard.

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Barnett, Ronald [Author]

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury Academic, c2022.Description: 250 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9781350193000

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LOC classification:

LB 2322.2 .B37 2022 c.1

Contents:

Part I. Warning cultures and a universal culture.--Part II. Designing for cultural places.--Part III. Within and beyond culture.--Part IV. Dialogical Imaginings.

Summary: This book opens a debate about the cultural purposes of universities and higher education. The authors argue that the university can be and should be an institution of culture and can exercise a cultural leadership role in society. This wide ranging and polemic text addresses a range of subjects including the digital age and its ethical implications, ecology, citizenship, post-truth, hybridity and speculative design The authors build on the work of key philosophers of the university from Aristotle, Nietzsche and Heidegger to Donna Haraway, Terry Eagleton, Martha C. Nussbaum, Gernot Bohme, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, and develop a vision of the university for the twenty-first century.

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Includes bibliography and indexes.

Part I. Warning cultures and a universal culture.--Part II. Designing for cultural places.--Part III. Within and beyond culture.--Part IV. Dialogical Imaginings.

This book opens a debate about the cultural purposes of universities and higher education. The authors argue that the university can be and should be an institution of culture and can exercise a cultural leadership role in society. This wide ranging and polemic text addresses a range of subjects including the digital age and its ethical implications, ecology, citizenship, post-truth, hybridity and speculative design The authors build on the work of key philosophers of the university from Aristotle, Nietzsche and Heidegger to Donna Haraway, Terry Eagleton, Martha C. Nussbaum, Gernot Bohme, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, and develop a vision of the university for the twenty-first century.

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