The new spirit of capitalism in European Liberal Arts programs

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ID8858960
AuthorsJakob Claus (Leuphana University of Lüneburg, corresponding author), Thomas Meckel (Leuphana University of Lüneburg), Farina Pätz (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)
Year2017
Volume50
Issue11
Pages1011-1019
Publication date2017-06-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131857.2017.1341298
OpenAlexW2624750269
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited7

The following paper suggests a connection between recent developments in the justification of the capitalist system and contemporary European Liberal Arts programs. By looking at Luc Boltanski’s and Eve Chiapello’s study on The New Spirit Of Capitalism and Gilles Deleuze’s term of societies of control we highlight a pivot within Western societies towards flexibility, creativity and self-fulfillment as essential requirements on the job market. We then link this observation to European Liberal Arts programs and ask to what extent the Liberal Arts’ self-understanding, as it appears at European universities, conforms to this new capitalist imperative. Furthermore, we examine how we experienced these claims during our time as Liberal Arts students

Aesthetics · Capitalism · Creativity · Economics · Flexibility (engineering · Higher education · Liberal arts education · Liberal education · Management · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The arts · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism

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