Academic Activism in Higher Education: A Living Philosophy for Social Justice

Preface
	Setting the Scene
	A Complexity of Dilemmas
	Why Academic Activism?
	Through the Lens of a Philosophy of Higher Education
	Organisation of the Book
	References
Contents
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Philosophy of Higher Education and Interpretivism
	Introduction
	Conceiving Academic Activism
	Academic Activism as Academic Freedom
	Academic Activism as a Mode of Rupturing
	Towards a Renewed Understanding of Philosophy of Higher Education
	Concluding Thoughts
	References
Chapter 2: Criticality and Higher Education
	Introduction
	Critique
	On Self-Reflective and Communicative Autonomy
	Relooking Academic Activism According to Critique
	References
Chapter 3: Turning to the Subjectivity of the Individual
	Introduction
	Power, Resistance and the Subject of the Individual
	Power, Knowledge and Freedom
	References
Chapter 4: Deconstruction Through Writing
	Introduction
	On Deconstruction, Reading, Writing and Activism
	A New Type of University Responsibility
	Academic Responsibility as Activism
	References
Chapter 5: The Pursuit of a Living Philosophy
	Introduction
	‘What Is, Is All That Is’
	Perhaps ‘What Is, Is [Not] All That Is’?
	Towards a Living Philosophy and Academic Activism
	Living Philosophy Is a Matter of Opposing ‘New Fictions of Evil’?
	References
Chapter 6: Revolutionary Action
	Introduction
	Revolution as Freedom
	Towards a Revolutionary Spirit of Activism
	Activism as ‘Perplexities of New Beginnings’
	References
Chapter 7: A Pedagogy of Courage
	Introduction
	On a Pedagogy of Courage
	Representational Politics as Conscientisation
	Academic Activism as a ‘Pedagogy of Contentment’
	References
Chapter 8: A Feminist Critique of University Education
	Introduction
	A Feminist Critique of the University as Corporeal and Embodied Education
	Bodies Matter Because They Do
	The University as Unregulated
	Towards a University of Criticism, Non-mastery and Fallible Truths and Their Implications for Academic Activism
	References
Chapter 9: Academic Activism and the Postmodern Condition Revisited
	Introduction
	Narrative Knowledge as an Enactment of Academic Activism
	The Risk of ‘Performance Maximisation’
	On Philosophy as a Restoration of Unity
	References
Chapter 10: Through the Agency of the Muselmann
	Introduction
	The Muselmann and Bearing Witness to Inhumanity
	On Shame
	Academic Activism as Testimony and Responsibility
	References
Postscript: Constraints and Impediments to Academic Activism
	Introduction
	A Philosophy of Muslim Higher Education
	Activism as Democratisation
References
Index