In the
Introduction of The University in Ruins,
Bill Readings writes that “the University no longer participates in the
historical project for humanity that was the legacy of the Enlightenment: the
historical project of culture”. So, he asks if it is a new beginning or an end
of the social function of the University, in a kind of “postmodernity” of the
University. In that way, he cites the emblematic book The Postmodern Condition, by Jean-François Lyotard, where “the
question of the postmodern is a question posed to the University as much as in
the University”. Readings prefer to use the word “posthistorical” rather than “postmodern”
to the contemporary University, because it is an institution that keeps itself
existing beyond its own historical identity. He do not agree with some kind of “more
modern” University than the modern one, that could be the argument for a
postmodern University.
Anyway, in
the end of the 20th century Readings saw that posthistorical
postmodern University in the ruins of its cultural function. Now, in the second
decade of the 21st century, what can we think about a “after-postmodern”
University?
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