Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction

Neil Cocks is Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Reading, UK. His research interests include nineteenth century literature, children's literature, psychoanalysis, and visual culture.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Transparency and Objecthood.- Chapter 2. ‘[…] not much like a grove […]’: Openness, Object, and Agora in ‘The Lecherous Professor Revisited’ by Diane Purkiss.- Chapter 3. Therapy and its Discontents: Bullying, Freedom and Self-Evidence in 'The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education' by Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes.- Chapter 4. New-Managerial Ontology:  Materiality, Vision and Disclosure in 'Non-Representational Theory' by Nigel Thrift.