Truth, Identity and Community in the University
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12285381 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nigel Blake (a The Open University , Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 263-281 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Curriculum Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0965-9757 • E-ISSN: 1747-5104 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0965975950030303 |
| OpenAlex | W2081209913 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper examines the institutional implications of postmodernism for higher education. The university is paradigmatically a modern institution, grounded in post‐Cartesian notions of disciplinarity, autonomy, authority and the growth of knowledge. But anti‐foundationalism repudiates the picture of knowledge as a mirror of nature, and thus impugns the epistemological foundations of university institutions. Lyotard describes a correlative collapse of Grand Narrative, while Foucault records an insurrection of ‘subjugated knowledges’. New concerns with identity and conflict have infiltrated the university and pluralism induces resistance to critique, academic social splintering and statis in the growth of knowledge. Habermas’ consensus theory of truth is introduced and defended. It provides a basis for reintegrating the fracturing university whilst accepting the validity of small narratives and avoiding a universalist account of rationality. Work within a small narrative necessarily remains open to external critique and radical questioning; and the identities it subtends remain open to revision
Aesthetics · Autonomy · Epistemology · Foundationalism · Identity (music · Institution · Narrative · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Postmodernism · Rationality · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Digital Education and Society · Law · Philosophy · Postmodernism in Literature and Education
The structure of scientific revolutions
Theory of Communicative Action
Habermas and Modernity
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
The Democracy We Need
The archaeology of knowledge
The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 1, Reason and the Rationalization of Society
The philosophical discourse of modernity
The critical theory of Jürgen Habermas
The Postmodern Condition
Language, Counter-Memory, Practice
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1997 - 2000 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |