Abstract
The introduction of corporate mode into universities with the widespread of neoliberalism has posed threats to intellectuals’ academic creativity and political sensitivity. To respond to the threats, I argue that it is high time we talk about educating hope. Moreover, I contend that Richard Rorty and Gilles Deleuze’s theories on hope can be of great help in understanding the complexity and exquisiteness of hope—non-representational and non-metaphysical, dependent on contingent encounters, transformative and political.
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Ting Pei
Pei Ting is a PhD student of philosophy department in Wuhan University. She is currently working on philosophical connections of Gilles Deleuze and other philosophers. A particular and consistent interest of her is Palestine issues, with an emphasis on the ‘abstract machine’ and Israel settler colonialism.