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A marxist critique of the ruined university

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Title/Author:	A marxist critique of the ruined university/ by Krystian Szadkowski, Jakub Krzeski.
Author:	Szadkowski, Krystian.
other author:	Krzeski, Jakub.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore : : 2025.,
Description:	xiii, 179 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Chapter 1. The Totality of Capital in Higher Education and the Integrity of Critique -- Chapter 2. Decrepitude of the Critique: Renewing or Casting Critique aside? -- Chapter 3. The Real Movement that Abolishes the Present State of Things. Marx (and Engels) on Critique -- Chapter 4. Ontological Foundations of Critique -- Chapter 5. Interlude 1: On Academic Robinson and his Preachers -- Chapter 6. 'In': Critique of the Political Economy of Higher Education -- Chapter 7. Interlude 2: Where to Hit? -- Chapter 8. 'Against': Workers' Inquiry and Co-research -- Chapter 9. Interlude 3: Embedding Counter-Subjectivity within Militant University -- Chapter 10. 'Beyond': Higher Education and Practices of the Common -- Chapter 11. Coda: Critique as Commoning -- Index.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Education, Higher - Philosophy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-5119-1
ISBN:	9789819651191

A marxist critique of the ruined university
Szadkowski, Krystian.

A marxist critique of the ruined university[electronic resource] /by Krystian Szadkowski, Jakub Krzeski. - Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :2025. - xiii, 179 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Debating higher education: philosophical perspectives,v. 152366-2581 ;. - Debating higher education: philosophical perspectives ;v. 15..

Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Chapter 1. The Totality of Capital in Higher Education and the Integrity of Critique -- Chapter 2. Decrepitude of the Critique: Renewing or Casting Critique aside? -- Chapter 3. The Real Movement that Abolishes the Present State of Things. Marx (and Engels) on Critique -- Chapter 4. Ontological Foundations of Critique -- Chapter 5. Interlude 1: On Academic Robinson and his Preachers -- Chapter 6. 'In': Critique of the Political Economy of Higher Education -- Chapter 7. Interlude 2: Where to Hit? -- Chapter 8. 'Against': Workers' Inquiry and Co-research -- Chapter 9. Interlude 3: Embedding Counter-Subjectivity within Militant University -- Chapter 10. 'Beyond': Higher Education and Practices of the Common -- Chapter 11. Coda: Critique as Commoning -- Index.

This book revitalizes the Marxian concept of critique for research into the transformation of universities. It consists of a set of comprehensive and interconnected theoretical tools, starting from the reflection on the political ontology of higher education, through the critique of political economy of the sector to the analysis of activist struggles within the universities, and back to the ontological concept of the common - a foundation for the university alternative design. The tools offered and discussed in context throughout the book allow for a productive use in overcoming the current crisis of the university, as well as to avoid the pitfalls present in contemporary debates around it. Unlike the dominant discussions on the university in crisis, the authors argue that to grasp its nature, one has to reach more profound than the level of appearances such as marketization and commodification. Szadkowski and Krzeski offer a compelling reappraisal of critique as a mechanism to liberate intellectual work. By linking critique to how knowledge is structured and commodified, they help us transcend reductionist narratives of a crisis-ridden University. Prioritising ontological renewal, they embrace the political and the common, enriching our collective ways of knowing the world as a movement. Pivoting around academic and student protests in Poland, the book enables us to imagine spaces and times of critical hope that resist the capitalist subjugation of intellectual activity to knowledge production. Richard Hall, Professor of Education and Technology, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK In the century since Antonio Gramsci new works in the Marxist tradition have made only modest contributions to social thought: the combined result of the savage repression in the West of the dangerous revolutionary ideas, plus the collapse in the East into jacobin conspiracy and dogmatism. If a living, vibrant Marxism had been part of the twentieth century mainstream then much catastrophe would have been averted. Now the drive for capital accumulation, sovereign individualism and rampant nationalism have brought us to the brink of ecological disaster and World War III. Into the void step two emerging scholars, Krystian Szadkowski and Jakub Krzeski with an original Marxist critique of higher education and the common good. There is hope in this development, vital resources for reflection, discussion and action. Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford, UK, Honorary Professor at Tsinghua University in China, and Joint Editor in Chief of the journal 'Higher Education'.

ISBN: 9789819651191

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-96-5119-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

594340
Education, Higher
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: LB2324

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