- Publikationen ca: 1
- Gefolgt von 1 Nutzern
- Fragen & Antworten
Mahon, Áine
Áine Mahon is Assistant Professor in the School of Education at University College Dublin. Her primary research areas are Philosophy of Education and Philosophy of Literature. Áine’s first monograph, The Ironist and the Romantic: Reading Richard Rorty and Stanley Cavell, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014. With Andrew Taylor of the University of Edinburgh, she has co-edited Stanley Cavell, Literature and Film: The Idea of America (London and New York: Routledge, 2013); and with Clara Fischer of Queen’s University Belfast, she has co-edited Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland (London and New York: Routledge, 2020).
The Promise of the University
This book offers philosophical readings of the contemporary university and is motivated by a series of pressing challenges in the global context of Higher Education. It argues that the university is a place for community, for refuge, for enlightenment and the careful questioning of knowledge, but it is also a place for visceral ambition and for intellectual cowardice, for blinkered individualism and professional competitiveness.