The crisis of higher education and the rhetorical vicissitudes of the common good
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7094422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara A Biesecker (University of Georgia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 111-126 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1535-8593 • E-ISSN: 1535-8593 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15358593.2019.1595703 |
| OpenAlex | W2946488528 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Over the course of this essay, I advance four interrelated claims. One, today's crisis in the humanities is real. Two, today's crisis in the humanities is also manufactured. Three, a jettisoned archaeogenealogy of civil society and its associated political principle of the common good will show that the crisis in the humanities that is both real and manufactured is indicative of a dramatic transformation of the common good. Four, turning the crisis around therefore will require humanists to rigorously interrogate their own investment in the common good as a single substantive idea or transcendental ideal and, on that radically unsettled ground, begin to articulate alternatives to the late neoliberal common sense, using the classroom as a training ground for others to do the same
Art · Common ground · Common sense · Epistemology · Form of the Good · Humanism · Humanities · Literature · Political crisis · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Theology · Transcendental number · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · University Challenges and Reforms · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |