This is a challenging and stimulating book. It is a statement about higher education in the modern age where the author argues that the present defining concept of the western university as that of critical thinking is completely inadequate for today’s graduates. His view is that the idea of critical thinking must be replaced by the broader concept of critical being “which embraces critical thinking, critical action and critical self‐reflection”.
The book is in three parts:
Part 1 ‐ “Rethinking critical thinking”.
Part 2 ‐ “Towards critical being”.
Part 3 ‐ “Critique in society”.
It has a glossary, a bibliography and an index. This book should be studied by all who are interested in the development of universities and higher education for today’s world and the next century.
