Docherty, Thomas (2016) John Higgins on academic freedom. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 15 (2). pp. 193-196. doi:10.1177/1474022215613602 ISSN 1474-0222.

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Abstract

This review article considers the work of John Higgins on academic freedom. It reveals that Higgins offers an account that eschews any fundamental relation between academic freedom and the market. Rather, he offers a more nuanced view that takes academic freedom out of the academy and into a wider political and social domain, while simultaneously avoiding the trap of offering a transcendent or metaphysical ‘idea’ of academic freedom. This depends upon what Higgins calls ‘critical literacy’, which requires that we develop an understanding of specific issues textually, theoretically, and historically. In this way, Higgins attends to historically specific occasions when social freedom is under threat, and demonstrates how our freedoms within the academy can intervene to redeem that social freedom and extend it. The piece argues that academic freedom is more than merely academic, but social and political.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies
Journal or Publication Title:	Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
Publisher:	Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN:	1474-0222
Official Date:	April 2016
Dates:	Date Event April 2016 Published
Volume:	15
Number:	2
Page Range:	pp. 193-196
DOI:	10.1177/1474022215613602
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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