Thinking University Expanded

<p><em>The Thinking University Expanded</em> considers how the university can be extended and developed to an institution of play that becomes a gateway to new compositions and enactments of opportunities and happiness for university academics and students alike. A university of and in continuous play can shape the public sphere in ways that reimagine both the epistemological and political, and the metaphysical and the ethical.</p><p>Without abandoning the university’s emphasis on thinking, the book examines the prospects of opening the university to ‘a new, possible use’. The singular outcomes-based lens of seeing higher education distorts the humane and ethical nuance of what a university can potentially do and aspire towards. For this reason, the book intends to find a new use for the idea of a university – one that is responsible and responsive in both its pursuit of the truth and being open to different kinds of truth, as made manifest in diverse contexts and life-worlds.</p><p>This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the field of higher education.</p> <p>1. The thinking university reconsidered. 2. On searching for truth and the justification for telling the truth. 3. Student alienation and the democratic mission of a university re-examined. 4. On some of the limitations of citizenship and the thinking university. 5. Towards a university beyond critique. 6. On a university without condition. 7. Against the exclusive entrepreneurial university. 8. Al-Rumi and the notion of a university beyond critique. 9. An argument in defence of a playful university. 10. On a university in perpetual play</p>