The University Becoming: Perspectives from Philosophy and Social Theory

Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1. Introduction: The university becoming (Søren Bengtsen, Sarah Robinson, and Wesley Shumar).- Part 1: Higher education and its societal contexts.- Chapter 2. The philosophy of higher education: forks, branches and openings (Ronald Barnett).- Chapter 3. Higher education and the politics of need (Benjamin Baez).- Chapter 4. Education as Promise: Learning from Hannah Arendt (Jon Nixon).- Chapter 5. Can academics be trusted to be truth-tellers more than the rest of society? (Paul Gibbs).- Part 2: Student being and becoming.- Chapter 6. Higher education: Learning how to pay attention (Sharon Rider).- Chapter 7. In search of student time: student temporality and the future university (Søren Bengtsen, Laura Louise Sarauw, and Ourania Filippakou).- Chapter 8. A Kantian perspective on integrity as an aim of student being and becoming (Denise Batchelor).- Chapter 9. An entrepreneurial ecology for higher education: a new approach to student formation (Wesley Shumar and Søren Bengtsen).- Part 3: The idea of the future university.- Chapter 10. philosophy for the playful university - Towards a theoretical foundation for playful higher education (Rikke Toft Nørgård).- Chapter 11. The migrant university (Ryan E. Gildersleeve).- Chapter 12. The student as consumer or citizen of academia and academic bildung (Mariann Solberg).- Chapter 13. Creating experimenting communities in the future university (Sarah Robinson, Klaus Thestrup, and Wes Shumar).- Chapter 14. Coda: Perpetuum mobile (Ronald Barnett).- Index.