{"product_id":"dark-academe-capitalism-theory-and-the-death-drive-in-higher-education-9783031563508","title":"Dark Academe: Capitalism, Theory, and the Death Drive in Higher Education","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book argues that a critical understanding of dark academe is vital to the futures of democracy and education. Drawing upon contemporary literary and cultural theory, particularly, affect theory, queer epistemology, and critical race theory as well as critiques of capitalism and accounts of the death drive, it builds a case for identifying dark academe as anything that prohibits the pursuit of democratic education and critical citizenship. It also argues that dark times require a reassessment of the ways theory and knowledge are approached in the humanities. This is necessary if the aim is to truly understand the darkness at the heart of the higher education today. Dark academe works to negate education and learning by continuously telling us that the quest for knowledge is empty, and the pursuit of critique is blind. In this educational darkness, the death drive of neoliberal academe becomes a force that works against intellectual transformation and the deepening of critical sights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey R. Di Leo\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. His books include \u003cem\u003eCorporate Humanities in Higher Education: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), \u003ci\u003eT\u003cem\u003ehe New Public Intellectual: Politics, Theory, and the Public Space (\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e2016, co-edited with Peter Hitchcock), \u003cem\u003eHigher Education under Late Capitalism: Identity, Conduct, and the Neoliberal Condition\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), and \u003cem\u003eCatastrophe and Higher Education: Neoliberalism, Theory, and the Future of the Humanities\u003c\/em\u003e (2020). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50407312556306,"sku":"9783031563508","price":168.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_262bbb3c-42ae-490b-8096-434b99432d2e.jpg?v=1729243162","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dark-academe-capitalism-theory-and-the-death-drive-in-higher-education-9783031563508","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}