Intellectual Citizenship and the Problem of Incarnation

by Peter Eglin

"Who has the right to know?" asks Jean-Francois Lyotard. "Who has the right to eat?" asks Peter Madaka Wanyama. This book asks: "what does it mean to be a responsible academic in a 'northern' university given the incarnate connections between the university's operations and death and suffering elsewhere?" Through studies of the "neoliberal university" in Ontario, the "imperial university" in relation to East Timor, the "chauvinist university" in relation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761859888
• ISBN13: 9780761859888
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"