Dark Academe: Capitalism, Theory, and the Death Drive in Higher Education

di Jeffrey R. Di Leo (Autore)

Springer International Publishing AG, 2024

This book argues that a critical understanding of dark academe is vital to the futures of democracy and education. Drawing upon contemporary literary and cultural theory, particularly, affect theory, queer epistemology, and critical race theory as well as critiques of capitalism and accounts of the death drive, it builds a case for identifying dark academe as anything that prohibits the pursuit of democratic education and critical citizenship. It also argues that dark times require a reassessment of the ways theory and knowledge are approached in the humanities. This is necessary if the aim is to truly understand the darkness at the heart of the higher education today. Dark academe works to negate education and learning by continuously telling us that the quest for knowledge is empty, and the pursuit of critique is blind. In this educational darkness, the death drive of neoliberal academe becomes a force that works against intellectual transformation and the deepening of critical sights.

• Autore: Jeffrey R. Di Leo
• Editore: Springer International Publishing AG
• Collana: Palgrave Studies on Global Policy and Critical Futures in Education
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 252 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• EAN: 9783031563508

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