Learning My Lesson
A London Review of Books Winter Lecture
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Beschreibung
In her 2015 Winter Lecture for the London Review of Books, Marina Warner shows how higher education in the UK has been betrayed.
A university is a place where ideas are meant to be freely explored, where independence of thought and the Western ideals of democratic liberty are enshrined. Yet at the same time as we congratulate ourselves on our freedom of expression, we have a situation in which a lecturer cannot speak her mind, universities bring in the police to deal with campus protests, and graduate students cannot write publicly about what is happening. Gagging orders may not even be necessary.
In her 2015 Winter Lecture for the London Review of Books, Marina Warner shows how higher education in the UK has been betrayed.
Also in this series:
Tariq Ali: The New World Disorder;
Mary Beard: The Public Voice of Women;
Adam Phillips: Against Self-Criticism.
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Marina Warner
Marina Warner is professor of English and creative writing at Birkbeck, University of London. She has written 16 works of non-fiction, on subjects such as the Virgin Mary, fairy tales and monsters, as well as five novels, and is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. She resigned from the University of Essex in summer 2014.
Themen in »Learning My Lesson«
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