Willy Thayer

The Non-Modern Crisis of the Modern University

Übersetzer: Leraul, D Bret; Leraul, Bret

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Produktbeschreibung

A landmark work of critical theory about the Western university from the Southern Cone Renowned Chilean philosopher Willy Thayer’s La crisis no moderna de la universidad moderna, first published in 1996 and in an updated edition in 2019, is a landmark work of critical theory from the Southern Cone. Presented in English for the first time, The Non-Modern Crisis of the Modern University rewrites the idea of the Western university while also diagnosing the ills of postdictatorship Chile through a philosophically informed dismantling of its neoliberal institutionalization of higher education. Bret Leraul’s translation advances the vital work of globalizing critical university studies by disseminating theory from the Global South. If the university helped to construct Chile’s neoliberal society, Thayer’s polemical deconstruction of both will help readers reconstruct the cultural politics of the era to better understand the global hegemony of neoliberalism today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780810146846
• ISBN-10: 0810146843
• Artikelnr.: 70830254

Autorenporträt

Willy Thayer is a professor of philosophy at Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la EducaciÓn in Santiago, where he founded the Program in Critical Thought and directs Ediciones Macul. His many books include Tecnologias de la crÍtica (2009; translated as Technologies of Critique in 2020). D. Bret Leraul is an assistant professor of comparative humanities and affiliate faculty in Latin American studies at Bucknell University.

Inhaltsangabe

Untimely, Uneven, Combined: Translator’s Introduction
I. The Non-Modern Crisis of the Modern University
1. A Few Things that Must Be Stated
2. From the Epic to Kitsch, From Enthusiasm to Boredom
3. “Our” Actual Faculties of Philosophy
II. University, Universality, and Languages
4. Trascendens, the Medieval University, and the Missionary Structure of
the University (A Sketch) 
5. The Modern Franco-Cartesian-Napoleanic-Comtean University
6. The University of Berlin: The Modern, Philosophical, German University 
7. Kant’s Architectonics 
8. Nietzsche: From the Faculty of Philosophy to the Faculty of Genealogy
III. The Non-Modern Transition of the Modern University 
9.  Transition from State to Market 
10. The Categorial Crisis of the University 
IV. Pinochet’s Signature 
> Notes
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