We kindly invite Faculty members, students and guests to attend a book presentation of Dr. Martin Aidnik. The book is titled “The Public University as a Real Utopia: Towards a Renewal of Higher Education”.
The presentation will take place on the 31st of October at 12:30, at KTU Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, room 213.
The presentation will be held in English.
Everybody is very welcome to join!
About the book:
This book theorises the public university as a real utopia, drawing upon the work of the American sociologist Erik Olin Wright. The book explores institutional democracy, academic freedom and the curriculum as the real utopian ‘constituents’ of the public university. In doing so, the author puts forward an argument for the redevelopment of public universities, seeking to do justice to both a radical vision and practical feasibility. This imaginative reconstruction of the university advances debate in the sociology and philosophy of higher education.
