This book explores questions concerning personal identity and individual conduct within neoliberal academe. The author suggests that neoliberal academe is normal academe in the new millennium though well aware of its contested nature and destructive capacities. Examining higher education through a number of ideals, such as austerity and transparency, brings readers on a journey into its present as well as its past. If some of these ideals can be identified and critiqued, there is a chance that the foundations of neoliberal academe can be weakened. This book actively pursues pathways out of the neoliberal abyss--and offers that demanding a role for pleasure in higher education may be one of them.

Autorentext
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction.- 1. The Two Austerities.- 2. Unlit Classrooms.- 3. Higher Hedonism.- 4. Homo Habitus.- 5. Google U.- 6. Against Debt.- 7. Punch the Clock.- 8. The Dark Side.- 9. Breaking Bad.