ABSTRACT
The University is in a state of disarray, not least in a post-truth era. Postmodernism is waning but it is only one of many intellectual fashions over the past fifty-plus years that have shot exocets into objectivity, naïve realism and a devotion to a language of knowledge and truth. Relativism, ideology critiques, structuralism, constructivism, deconstructivism are other intellectual fashions that have collectively undermined not merely key concepts within the very idea of the university for the past two hundred years—knowledge, truth, reason and even dialogue—but have helped to undermine the university itself.
