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Beyond All Reason: Living with Ideology in the University (SRHE) Book

Argues that ideology is a fact of life in universities but that a positive way forward is within reach. This book presents the author's attempts to show that it is possible to hold to and to live out an idea of the university.Read More

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    Universities are increasingly ideological. Many of the ideologies that are to be found on campus, such as entrepreneurialism, competition, quality and managerialism, express interests of the wider society but the university's own activities, such as research and even learning and teaching, are also becoming ideologies. Since ideologies are dogmatic in character, universities are being undermined and are being placed beyond all reason.

    How, then, might universities live effectively, beset as they are with ideologies in their midst? Indeed, is it still sensible to conceive of universities as places of reason? In Beyond All Reason, Ronald Barnett argues that ideology is now a fact of life in universities but that a positive way forward is within reach.

    Ideologies have been understood, rightly, as pernicious in nature, thwarting reason and the expression of human being. However, by returning to the ideals of reasonableness and generosity within the idea of the university, and by developing creative practices that build on those ideals, it is possible to construct virtuous ideologies that do justice to universities as universities in the twenty-first century.

    Beyond All Reason continues Ronald Barnett's attempts to show that it is still possible to hold to and to live out an idea of the university. It is a bold and optimistic statement and is required reading for anyone concerned about the current state of university life.

  • 0335208940
  • 9780335208944
  • Ronald Barnett
  • 4 July 2003
  • Open University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 192
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