Corporate Humanities in Higher Education Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy [Hardcover]

How do humanists speak for and from the humanities in an academy which values them less and less and market-driven approaches more and more? Jeffrey R. Di Leo provides a thorough critique of the higher education crisis and a set of practical and reasonable remedies for shaping the study and practice of the humanities in the academy of the future.Introduction 1. Corporate Literature 2. Humanities, Inc. 3. Paralogical Inquiry 4. Apocalyptic Fear 5. Critical Affiliations 6. Wrangling with Rank 7. Authorial Prestige 8. The Publishing Market 9. The Junkyard of Ideas Coda

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Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. Jeffrey R. Di Leo has written a sharp, visionary, and practical guide to the problems facing the humanities in higher education today. Corporate Humanities in Higher Education tones down the noise on this debate and explains the complex conflict caused when market mentalities administer programs dedicated to developing the human capacity for critical thought. Rather than wax nostalgic or throw up his hands in disgust, Di Leo uses his experience as a humanist and an administrator to offer keen insights into practical ways we can save the humanities while also saving our intellectual integrity. This is a must-have book for anyone interested in the future of higher education. - Sophia McClennen, Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Women's Studies, Penn State University, USA

As the neoliberal imperatives for corporate managerialism, vocationalism, instrumentalism, rationalization and national security creep threaten to eviscerate the humanities, Jeffrey R. Di Leo's Corporate Humanities in Higher Education makes a timely and desperately needed case for the strategic defense of the humanities as part of a commitment tl3y