In contemporary capitalist economy knowledge generating becomes part and parcel of material production and man, as the bearer of intellectual capacities, the principal productive force. In this reality, education came to mean the formation of the "general intellect": the cultivation of mind and the development of consciousness, of its moral,…

This paper aims at identifying the characteristics acquired by the university under the regime of academic capitalism. It also attempts to put forward their antinomic relationship to the essential properties of academic activity, perceived in the light of the concept of "universal labour" introduced by Karl Marx. (Contains 1 note.)

Admitting that the peculiarity of education doesn't merely lie in the acquisition of knowledge, as a compilation of data, but that it refers to the fostering, within the pedagogical relationship, of universal human capabilities, the ability to think being cardinal among them, and if, the critical examination of things is considered as the…