Abstract

The main thesis of Bill Readings's The University in Ruins is that the increasing globalization of capital is undermining the nation-state, and with it the national cultures which Readings declares to have been the university's integrating principle since the Enlightenment; further, that the contemporary University is itself becoming a transnational corporation, a development which must be resisted from within by a pedagogy based on justice, not knowledge.

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