The Reuniversalization of the University?

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Recent concern about the crisis of intellectuals and of higher education in the wake of Jacoby's and Bloom's books' have failed to trigger any minimal effort at reform — which unintentionally corroborates some of their claims about the demise of intellectuals and the primacy of Realpolitik over rational discourse. If universities are likely to undergo major reform it will be, as in the past, in response to broader socio-economic developments rather than because of impotent intellectual challenges from either the Right or the Left. Thus the cues as to the nature of likely changes are to be taken from the way geopolitical dynamics are likely to effect the social mechanisms of cultural reproduction and not from the abstract bitching and moaning of a few disgruntled intellectuals.

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