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The Critical University
from Part III - Crisis of the University
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2019
Chapter 11 traces the history of the 'critical universities' created in the wake of the peak of student mobilisation around 1968 – in particular, the Kritische Universität of West Berlin and the Università Critica of Trento. Plans for a université critique at Nanterre failed as conflict escalated rapidly and the French government moved most quickly to enact reform within higher education. These experiments attempted to draw on the mobilisation created by confrontations with police and society to transform the university. However, they were beset by problems of poor attendance, inequalities and divergences within the protest movements over the purpose and value of university reform. I argue that the internal contradictions of the movement and the politicising drive of events ultimately led to the collapse of these experiments.
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