THE THE VOCATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC UNIVERSITY FROM THE STANDPOINT OF WENDY BROWN’S CRITIQUE
This article examines in particular two writings of Wendy Brown about the vocation of the public university: The Vocation of the Public University (2017) and Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber (2023). They will be analyzed in relation to neoliberalism diagnoses developed by the author since t...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) |
| Repository: | Inter-ação (Goiânia. Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/78993 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ufg.br/interacao/article/view/78993 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Wendy Brown Neoliberalismo Universidade Democracia Ensino Superior Wendy Brown; Neoliberalism; University; Democracy. Wendy Brown; Neoliberalismo; Universidad; Democracia. |
| Summary: | This article examines in particular two writings of Wendy Brown about the vocation of the public university: The Vocation of the Public University (2017) and Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber (2023). They will be analyzed in relation to neoliberalism diagnoses developed by the author since the publication of Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution (2015). It will be shown how Brown's critique of contemporary antidemocratic and nihilistic culture captures the existing tensions in higher education: while contemporary public universities are oriented by the dominant neoliberal rationality, it is also possible to think about ways to counter such hegemony. This possibility relies mostly on ascribing a vocation to public university that builds up the conditions for democracy, threatened by neoliberalism, which implies rethinking the notion of freedom, as well as reconfiguring the spheres of politics and science. |
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