What if we have lost the ability to think straight? & what if this is why the shocking injustices of contemporary life go unchallenged in spite of being widely acknowledged? & what if the university the institution that is supposed to help us to think is in on the act? In this polemical account of how universities are failing both their students & society Sinead Murphy shows how the Zombie University of the twenty-first century is keeping us down rather than raising us up & asks whether in spite of everything it could be brought back to life & whether we could dare to think again