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  • Erich Auerbach and the Secular World
    Jon Nixon
    Erich Auerbach was a Jewish refugee who in exile in Istanbul during WWII wrote one of the major works of 20th Century literary criticism. This book explores the major themes of his life’s work, relates that work to his own life history, and explains his enduring relevance within the field of literary and cultural theory. ...
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    77,66 €

  • Erich Auerbach and the Secular World
    Jon Nixon
    Erich Auerbach was a Jewish refugee who in exile in Istanbul during WWII wrote one of the major works of 20th Century literary criticism. This book explores the major themes of his life’s work, relates that work to his own life history, and explains his enduring relevance within the field of literary and cultural theory. ...
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    268,38 €

  • Hannah Arendt
    Jon Nixon
    This book gathers some of Hannah Arendt’s core themes and focuses them on the question, ’What is education for?’  For Arendt, as for Aristotle, education is the means whereby we achieve personal autonomy through the exercise of independent judgement, attain adulthood through the recognition of others as equal but different, gain a sense of citizenship through the assumption of ...
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    79,22 €

  • Higher Education in Austerity Europe
    Jon Nixon
    The financial crisis of 2007/2008 prompted governments across Europe to adopt austerity measures aimed at the reduction of their escalating budget deficits. Higher Education in Austerity Europe explores how the resulting cuts in public expenditure - together with the increasing reliance on the privatisation of services - have impacted on higher education directly through the re...
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    60,22 €

  • Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal
    Jon Nixon
    What can contemporary activists and political theorists learn from the life and work of Rosa Luxemburg? Examining her contribution to radical democracy and revolutionary socialism, Jon Nixon shows why Red Rosa’s legacy lives on. Luxemburg’s political and intellectual formation was in itself a ’long revolution’, conceived of over time and in response to world events; her groundb...
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    127,19 €

  • Higher Education in Austerity Europe
    Jon Nixon
    The financial crisis of 2007/2008 prompted governments across Europe to adopt austerity measures aimed at the reduction of their escalating budget deficits. Higher Education in Austerity Europe explores how the resulting cuts in public expenditure - together with the increasing reliance on the privatisation of services - have impacted on higher education directly through the re...
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    226,15 €

  • Hans-Georg Gadamer
    Jon Nixon
    This book provides an introduction to Hans-Georg Gadamer’s thinking and shows how it might inform our own thinking about education as a lifelong process of engaging with one another and with the wider world. He insisted on the supreme importance of prior learning, but also on the unpredictability of human understanding and on the possibility of new and unforeseeable beginnings....
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    79,19 €

  • Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship
    Jon Nixon
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.For Hannah Arendt, friendship had political relevance and importance. The essence of friendship, she believed, consisted in discourse, and it is only through discourse, she argued, that the world is rendered humane. This book explores some of the ...
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    51,15 €

  • Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship
    Jon Nixon
    For Hannah Arendt, friendship had political relevance and importance. The essence of friendship, she believed, consisted in discourse, and it is only through discourse, she argued, that the world is rendered humane. This book explores some of the key ideas in Hannah Arendt’s work through a study of four lifelong friendships -- with Heinrich Blücher, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspe...
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    193,56 €

  • Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education
    Jon Nixon
    Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education focuses on providing a humanistic perspective on pedagogy by relating it to the interpretive practices of particular public educators: thinkers and writers whose work has had an immeasurable impact on how we understand and interpret the world and how our understandings and interpretations act on that world.Jon Nixon focuses on the wo...
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    67,08 €

  • Higher Education and the Public Good
    Jon Nixon
    What constitutes the public good in a highly individualistic, consumerist and privatized society?The global financial crisis of 2008 revealed the extent to which the public realm had been eroded over the last thirty years and the inroads that privatization and commercialization have made into the higher education sector. This book explores the institutional and sector-wide impl...
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    67,14 €

  • Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education
    Jon Nixon
    'Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education focuses on providing a humanistic perspective on pedagogy by relating it to the interpretive practices of particular public educators: thinkers and writers whose work has had an immeasurable impact on how we understand and interpret the world and how our understandings and interpretations act on that world.Jon Nixon focuses on the w...
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    246,07 €

  • Higher Education and the Public Good
    Jon Nixon
    What constitutes the public good in a highly individualistic, consumerist and privatized society? The global financial crisis of 2008 revealed the extent to which the public realm had been eroded over the last thirty years and the inroads that privatization and commercialization have made into the higher education sector. This book explores the institutional and sector-wide imp...
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    239,61 €

  • Towards the Virtuous University
    Jon Nixon
    Written for higher education academics, staff developers, policy makers and leaders, this book aims to tackle a subject that is at the heart of higher education today: the nature of a 'good university'. ...
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    103,45 €

  • Towards the Virtuous University
    Jon Nixon
    Written for higher education academics, staff developers, policy makers and leaders, this book aims to tackle a subject that is at the heart of higher education today: the nature of a 'good university'. ...
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    302,29 €