Catastrophe and Higher Education: Neoliberalism, Theory, and the Future of the Humanities

by Jeffrey R Di Leo and Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Book Overview

This book asks what it means to live in a higher educational world continuously tempered by catastrophe. Many of the resources for response and resistance to catastrophe have long been identified by thinkers ranging from Ralph Waldo Emerson and William James to H. G. Wells and Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. Di Leo posits that hope and resistance are possible if we are willing to resist a form of pessimism that already appears to be drawing us...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030624811
• ISBN13: 9783030624811
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"