Abstract
The University is not in ruins, though it is tempting to conclude otherwise at a time of shrinking budgets and declining public esteem. To suggest that the University is in ruins is to imply that it was once whole, to hark back to a `golden age' of the university when all students were gifted, colleagues respected each other, the citizenry bowed when a professor walked among them, and money flowed like water. We know that there has never been such a golden age, and yet we continue to evoke it. We complain about our students, imagining that in some bygone age all undergraduates wrote clearly and fluently, respected the professor's authority, loved learning for its own sake, and breached the portals of the library more often than those of the pub. But most of the problems facing the University today are not new. Therefore, I must disagree with the metaphor in the title of Bill Readings's book.
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