1st Edition
Teaching the Humanities in a Fractious World A Reply to Sceptics
1. So What? 1 2. Who For? 3. Academics Impotent or Potent? 4. Academics Pernicious or Virtuous? 5. Universities and Knowledge (and Wisdom?) 6. Known Unknowns or Unknown Unknowns? 7. Critical Thinking 8. Cool Views 9. Doubts, Philosophical and Non-Philosophical 10. The Crunch 11. Patriotism and Me 12. Globalisation and Me 13. Political Ignorance 14. Knowing Better 15. Patriotism, Globalisation, and Me 16. Patriotism and Me, Yet More 17. An Imagined Time Machine 18. How Come? 19. Community and Money 20. Modernity 1 21. Modernity 2 22. Modernity 3 23. Who’s Who 24. Modernity and Knowledge 25. Modernity and Capitalism 26. Watts Up 27. Nasty Catches 28. Back to the Campus 29. Really 30. History and Philosophy 31. Words and Doings 32. Social Relations 33. Another Evil Demon 34. So What? 2 35. Appendix. Questions and Answers. Select Bibliography
Biography
Gavin Kitching is an internationally distinguished scholar and researcher in the fields of Third World development, agrarian and rural development, and the philosophy and methodology of social science. He is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Social Sciences Academy.
