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Author_Brandon Absher
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continental philosophy
critical theory
critical university studies
Diversity
education policy
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Herbert Marcuse
Higher Education
human capital
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Jodi Melamed
knowledge
Lyotard
Marcuse
Melamed
Neoliberalism
One-Dimensionality
Performativity
philosophy of education
political philosophy
profit
profitable knowledge
skillsification
social epistemology
social order
sociology of knowledge
Product details
- ISBN 9781793616005
- Weight: 304g
- Dimensions: 154 x 223mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In The Rise of Neoliberal Philosophy: Human Capital, Profitable Knowledge, and the Love of Wisdom, Brandon Absher argues that the neoliberal transformation of higher education has resulted in a paradigm shift in philosophy in the United States, leading to the rise of neoliberal philosophy. Neoliberal philosophy seeks to attract investment by demonstrating that it can produce optimal return. Further, philosophers in the neoliberal paradigm internalize and reproduce the values of the prevailing social order in their work, reorienting philosophical desire toward the production of attractive commodities. The aim of philosophy in the neoliberal university, Absher shows, has become the production of human capital and profitable knowledge.
Brandon Absher is associate professor of philosophy at D’Youville College.
