Performing the University

Ivana Komanická

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Pages:: 181–194

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004440968_012

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The article focuses on a critique of the neoliberal transformation of culture and higher education and on re-thinking Derrida’s legacy of deconstructive political thinking for the leftist critique in the contemporary post-institutional situation. Already in the early ’90s Derrida engaged in discussions concerning financial cuts to philosophy departments and called for accountability in international institutions. He critically engaged with Kant’s notion of cosmopolitanism in order to insist both on the philosophical concept of the university and international institutions. The transformation of universities that took place under the euphemism of knowledge and creative societies redefined the notions of performativity and creativity, separating them from humanistic and modern traditions. Performativity was defined as the “culture of results” and the need to be efficient in the new cultural politics and the new politics of creativity. Performativity and creativity became central for the new ideology of the European project after the 2008 financial crisis. This ideology tried to offer new credibility to capitalism with the ideas of participative and interactive democracy.

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Modern and Postmodern Crises of Symbolic Structures

Essays in Philosophical Anthropology

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 356, Value Inquiry Book Series Online, Volume: 356, and Studies in the History of Western Philosophy, Volume: 356

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