Jon Nixon is Honorary Professor within the Education University of Hong Kong and Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, UK. He has written widely on cultural and intellectual history. His recent books include Hans-Georg Gadamer: The Hermeneutical Imagination (Springer, 2017), Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Friendship (Bloomsbury, 2015), Higher Education and the Public Good (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal (Pluto, 2018).
15 Ebooks by Jon Nixon
Jon Nixon: Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal
What can contemporary activists and political theorists learn from the life and work of Rosa Luxemburg? Examining her contribution to radical democracy and revolutionary socialism, Jon Nixon shows …
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€124.99
Jon Nixon: Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal
What can contemporary activists and political theorists learn from the life and work of Rosa Luxemburg? Examining her contribution to radical democracy and revolutionary socialism, Jon Nixon shows …
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€28.99
Jon Nixon: Hans-Georg Gadamer
This book provides an introduction to Hans-Georg Gadamer’s thinking and shows how it might inform our own thinking about education as a lifelong process of engaging with one another and with the wide …
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€64.19
Jon Nixon: Towards the Virtuous University
A good university is invariably assumed to be one which is managerially effective in terms of its economic efficiency, and is judged in terms of entrepreneurialism, self-promotion and competitive …
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€100.63
Jon Nixon: Towards the Virtuous University
A good university is invariably assumed to be one which is managerially effective in terms of its economic efficiency, and is judged in terms of entrepreneurialism, self-promotion and competitive …
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€64.76
Jon Nixon: Towards the Virtuous University
A good university is invariably assumed to be one which is managerially effective in terms of its economic efficiency, and is judged in terms of entrepreneurialism, self-promotion and competitive …
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€65.13
Jon Nixon & Lawrence Stenhouse: Teaching About Race Relations (RLE Edu J)
This is the report of two linked research projects: the SSRC Project on Problems and Effects of Teaching about Race Relations, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Project on Teaching About Race …
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€62.82
Jon Nixon & Lawrence Stenhouse: Teaching About Race Relations (RLE Edu J)
This is the report of two linked research projects: the SSRC Project on Problems and Effects of Teaching about Race Relations, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Project on Teaching About Race …
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€62.89
Jon Nixon: Hannah Arendt
This book gathers some of Hannah Arendt’s core themes and focuses them on the question, ‘What is education for?’ For Arendt, as for Aristotle, education is the means whereby we achieve personal …
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€69.54
Professor Jon Nixon: Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education
Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education focuses on providing a humanistic perspective on pedagogy by relating it to the interpretive practices of particular public educators: thinkers and …
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€42.96
Lingard Bob Lingard & Nixon Jon Nixon: Transforming Learning in Schools and Communities
Many educators have been looking for a fundamentally different approach to engage young people and encourage progress in learning. Supported by recent public policy developments, a transformation is …
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€42.92
Jon Nixon: Erich Auerbach and the Secular World
Auerbach was one of the foremost literary critics of the 20th century whose work has relevance within the fields of literary criticism, historiography and postcolonial theory. The opening chapter of …
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€50.26
Jon Nixon: Erich Auerbach and the Secular World
Auerbach was one of the foremost literary critics of the 20th century whose work has relevance within the fields of literary criticism, historiography and postcolonial theory. The opening chapter of …
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€49.74
Professor Tanya Fitzgerald & Professor Helen M. Gunter: Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education and Precarious Times
This book draws on interdisciplinary social science and philosophical frameworks to offer new dimensions to debate about intellectual leadership and higher education. The chapters are focused on prov …
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€101.74
Professor Tanya (University of Western Australia, Australia) Fitzgerald & Professor Helen M. (University of Manchester, UK) Gunter: Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education and Precarious Times
This book draws on interdisciplinary social science and philosophical frameworks to offer new dimensions to debate about intellectual leadership and higher education. The chapters are focused on prov …
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€101.96
