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  • Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal

    by Jon Nixon ...
    What can contemporary activists and political theorists learn from the life and work of Rosa Luxemburg? Examining her contribution to radical democracy and revolutionary socialism, Jon Nixon shows why Red Rosa's legacy lives on.Luxemburg's political and intellectual formation was in itself a 'long revolution', conceived of over time and in response to world events; her groundbreaking ideas around ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education and Precarious Times

    Edited by Professor Tanya Fitzgerald, Professor Helen M. Gunter, Professor Jon Nixon ...
    Series series Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education
    This book draws on interdisciplinary social science and philosophical frameworks to offer new dimensions to debate about intellectual leadership and higher education. The chapters are focused on provoking readers to think critically about intellectual leadership in precarious times. The contributors frame critical questions about the unevenness, ambivalences, and disruptions that now mark everyday ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Erich Auerbach and the Secular World

    Literary Criticism, Historiography, Post-Colonial Theory and Beyond

    by Jon Nixon ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Auerbach was one of the foremost literary critics of the 20th century whose work has relevance within the fields of literary criticism, historiography and postcolonial theory. The opening chapter of this book explains how he understood the task of interpretation and his role as an interpreter. The following chapter outlines the important phases in his life with reference to the writers and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Hannah Arendt

    The Promise of Education

    by Jon Nixon ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book gathers some of Hannah Arendt’s core themes and focuses them on the question, ‘What is education for?’For Arendt, as for Aristotle, education is the means whereby we achieve personal autonomy through the exercise of independent judgement, attain adulthood through the recognition of others as equal but different, gain a sense of citizenship through the assumption of our civic rights and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship

    by Professor Jon Nixon ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.For Hannah Arendt, friendship had political relevance and importance. The essence of friendship, she believed, consisted in discourse, and it is only through discourse, she argued, that the world is rendered humane.This book explores some of the key ideas in Hannah ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Hans-Georg Gadamer

    The Hermeneutical Imagination

    by Jon Nixon ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides an introduction to Hans-Georg Gadamer’s thinking and shows how it might inform our own thinking about education as a lifelong process of engaging with one another and with the wider world. He insisted on the supreme importance of prior learning, but also on the unpredictability of human understanding and on the possibility of new and unforeseeable beginnings. Having lived ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Higher Education in Austerity Europe

    Edited by Professor Jon Nixon ...
    The financial crisis of 2007/2008 prompted governments across Europe to adopt austerity measures aimed at the reduction of their escalating budget deficits. Higher Education in Austerity Europe explores how the resulting cuts in public expenditure - together with the increasing reliance on the privatisation of services - have impacted on higher education directly through the reduction of public ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Academic Identities in Higher Education

    The Changing European Landscape

    Edited by Professor Linda Evans, Professor Jon Nixon ...
    Academic identity is continually being formed and reformed by the institutional, socio-cultural and political contexts within which academic practitioners operate. In Europe the impact of the 2008 economic crisis and its continuing aftermath accounts for many of these changes, but the diverse cultures and histories of different regions are also significant factors, influencing how institutions ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Towards the Virtuous University

    The Moral Bases of Academic Practice

    by Jon Nixon ...
    Series series Key Issues in Higher Education
    A good university is invariably assumed to be one which is managerially effective in terms of its economic efficiency, and is judged in terms of entrepreneurialism, self-promotion and competitive innovation. This book argues that in the majority of institutions, these goals are being pursued to the exclusion of academic excellence and public service. It proposes that there is a marked lack of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Teaching About Race Relations (RLE Edu J)

    Problems and Effects

    by Lawrence Stenhouse, Gajendra Verma, Robert Wild, Jon Nixon ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This is the report of two linked research projects: the SSRC Project on Problems and Effects of Teaching about Race Relations, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Project on Teaching About Race Relations through Drama. Its aim is to help teachers who will face race as a theme, whether it arises in the normal course of their subject teaching or is introduced as a separate topic.The project ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Road to Serfdom

    Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition

    by F. A. Hayek ...
    Series Book 2 - The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek
    An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to Serfdom ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Fools, Frauds and Firebrands

    Thinkers of the New Left

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    The thinkers who have been most influential on the attitudes of the New Left are examined in this study by one of the leading critics of leftist orientations in modern Western civilization. Scruton begins with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concludes with a critique of the key strands in its thinking. He conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as: E. P. Thompson, Ronald ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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