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In this paper I focus on the tension between ‘public’ and ‘subversive’ university spaces, by examining the notions of ethics and creativity. I build my argument as a set of notions that may on the surface seem completely unrelated: the underground university in post-totalitarian Czechoslovakia, and current neoliberal academia.
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Tesar, M. (2013). Lessons of Subversion. In: Peters, M.A., Besley, T. (eds) The Creative University. Creative Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-245-7_9
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