This timely collection features an impressive assembly of the nation's leading intellectuals, addressing some of the most urgent issues facing higher education in the United States today. EDWARD CARVALHO Instructor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. . DAVID DOWNING Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. INDICE: Reframing Academic Freedom; 'E.J.Carvalho' &' D.B.Downing' - PART I: STATE OF THE UNION - Academic Unfreedom in America: Rethinking the University as a Democratic Public Sphere; 'H.A.Giroux' - Barefoot in New Zealand: The Politics of Campus Conflict; 'C.Nelson' - Marketing McCarthyism: The Media's Role in the War on Academic Freedom; 'J.K.Wilson' - PART II: CHURCHILL V. UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO - The Myth of Academic Freedom: Experiencing the Applicationof Liberal Principle in a Neoconservative Era; 'W.Churchill' - PART III: THE IMAGE AND REALITY OF TEACHING THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT - Civility and Academic Life; 'N.G.Finkelstein' - The Risk of Knowing;' I.Gendzier' - PART IV: NEOLIBERAL FREEDOMS, CONTINGENCY, AND CAPITAL - Caught in the Crunch;' E.Messer-Davidow' - Academic Bondage; 'J.J.Williams ' - Take Your Ritalin and Shut Up;'M.Bousquet' - Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Intellectual Engagement; 'S.A.McClennen' - PART V: REFLECTIONS AND 'TIGHTROPE HOPES' - Generation Kill: Nietzschean Meditations on the University, War, Youth, and Guns; 'S.S.Giroux' - The Post-9/11 University: It Could Have Been Much Worse; 'R.M.O'Neil ' - Lessonsfrom History: Interview with Noam Chomsky; 'E.J.Carvalho ' - 'Taking Back theStreet Corner': Interview with Martín Espada; 'E.J.Carvalho' - Preserving theDemocratic Experiment: Interview with Cornel West; 'E.J.Carvalho'
- ISBN: 978-0-230-10834-9
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 310
- Fecha Publicación: 19/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido