Robert Samuels: 9 books
Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free
How to Decrease Cost and Increase Quality at American Universities
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Universities tend to be judged by the test scores of their incoming students and not on what students actually learn once they attend these institutions. While shared tests and surveys have been developed, most schools refuse to publish the results. Instead, they allow such publications as U.S. News...
by Michael Brub, Joshua A. Boldt, Beth Landers
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
This issue of Profession contains Michael Bérubé's introduction to his Presidential Forum, Avenues of Access, which was held at the 2013 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants: Joshua A. Boldt, Beth Landers, Maria Maisto, and Robert Samuels. The issue also features a section on a...
Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump
Conservatism, Liberalism, and Neoliberal Populisms
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This book outlines a new model for global social justice movements that is based on Freud and Lacan’s central insights regarding the unconscious, repetition, drives, and transference. Since most of our current social issues are global in nature, Bob Samuels convincingly argues that we need a global...
by Robert Samuels
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This book argues that neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and behavioral economics often function as a political ideology masquerading as a new science. In looking at works by Antonio Damasio, Steven Pinker, Richard Thaler, Cas Sunstein, and John Tooby, Robert Samuels undertakes a close reading...
Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
Lacan's Reconstruction of Freud
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Educating Inequality
Beyond the Political Myths of Higher Education and the Job Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Politicians and school officials often argue that higher education is the solution to many of our social, and economic problems. Educating Inequality argues that in order to reduce inequality and enhance social mobility, public policies are needed to revamp the financial aid system and increase the...
The Politics of Writing Studies
Reinventing Our Universities from Below
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
A friendly critique of the field, The Politics of Writing Studies examines a set of recent pivotal texts in composition to show how writing scholarship, in an effort to improve disciplinary prestige and garner institutional resources, inadvertently reproduces structures of inequality within American...
Facets of Liberty
A Libertarian Primer
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Facets of Liberty is a collection of historical articles by well-known liberty activists and theorists from the early days of the libertarian, voluntaryist, classical liberal and individual anarchist movements, which first emerged during the turbulent 1960s. These articles lay a foundation to understand...
Innovations in Child and Family Policy
Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing...