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Free Thinking - Universities: Therapy or Learning?

Published: June 22, 2016, 10:02 p.m.

Philip Dodd debates "Universities - therapy or learning?". New Generation Thinker Dr Se\xe1n Williams looks at the history of the university as a space for thought, considering the arguments put forward by Frederick Nietzsche. Dr Se\xe1n Williams is at the University of Sheffield's School of Languages and Cultures. He is an expert on German and Comparative Literature and is currently researching a cultural history of hairdressing.

Dr Matt Lodder, Lecturer in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the University of Essex and Dr Joanna Williams, education editor of Spiked Online and former Director of the Study for Higher Education at the University of Kent discuss what is happening in academia and what it means.

Dr Shahidha Bari reviews Omer Fast's film of Tom McCarthy's novel Remainder. And Adam Mars Jones joins her to discuss the place for experimentation in the arts today.