Disenchantment in education, or

‘Whither art thou gone, fair world?’–Has the magic gone from the ivory tower

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ID15685178
AuthorsPaul Bishop (0000-0003-3307-5159, University of Glasgow, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume4
Issue1
Pages55-69
Publication date2012-01-17
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Jungian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1940-9052 • E-ISSN: 1940-9060
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19409052.2012.642482
OpenAlexW2074382289
LanguageEN
References cited21

With reference to the current debate surrounding the humanities in the West, this paper draws on subsequent theoretical explorations of disenchantment to analyse what numerous observers describe as the ‘crisis’ of our universities. Engaging both Jungian thought and the Frankfurt School to understand the psychological dynamics of ‘disenchantment’ as experienced on campus, it investigates Adorno's notion of the ‘totally administered society’ and — more broadly — surveys some of the arguments proposed to explain this decline. Moving beyond, on one hand, the lamentation and hand-wringing nostalgia for a long-lost past and, on the other, what some have termed a ‘new managerialism’ that inhabits an acronym-ridden climate of control, it tries to discern, in what is undoubtedly a political and an economic problem, the contours of a psychological crisis, whose resolution cannot ignore the archetypal dimension of the collective soul

Aesthetics · Disenchantment · Epistemology · Ivory tower · MAGIC (telescope · Managerialism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soul · Theology · Thou · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy

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