Rethinking Higher Education and the Crisis of Legitimation in Europe

--> Critical analysis and defense of higher education as a pivotal public good essential to social democracy
--> Salient examination of the political, economic, and cultural erosion of public institutions by neoliberalism and the 'delegitimation' by design of public goods and services
--> Important restatement of the value and goal of higher education for democratic societies and the need for public investment in social goods provision in a post-pandemic world