1. Introduction: Considering the Thinking University; Ronald Barnett and Søren Bengtsen.- PART 1: The Thinking University - Contending with the World.- 2. Truth, Democracy and the Mission of the University; Sharon Rider.- 3. Universities as Societal Drivers: Entrepreneurial Interventions for a Better Future; Wesley Shumar and Sarah Robinson.- 4. Dissident Thought: A Decolonising Framework for Revolt in the University; Sonja Arndt and Carl Mika.- 5. Towards an African University of Critique; Yusef Waghid and Nuraan Davids.- PART 2: Educating Thought.- 6. Research Education and Care: The Care-full PhD; Robyn Barnacle.- 7. Citizenship and the Thinking University: Toward the Citizen Scholar; James Arvanitakis and David J. Hornsby.- 8. Bildung, Emotion and Thought; Thomas Karlsohn.- 9. Technicising Thought: English and the Internationalisation of the University; SunInn Yun and Paul Standish.- PART 3: The Thinking University: Making Connections.- 10. A Complexity Thinking Take on Thinking in the University; David Beckett and Paul Hager.- 11. When Thought Gets Left Alone: Thinking, Recognition and Social Justice; Jan McArthur.- 12. The Worldhood University: Design Signatures and Guild Thinking; Rikke Toft Nørgård and Søren Bengtsen.- 13. The Thinking University: Two Versions, Rival and Complementary; Ronald Barnett.- 14. Coda: There is Much to Play for; Søren Bengtsen and Ronald Barnett.