Logomachia: The Conflict of the FacultiesRichard Rand University of Nebraska Press, 1992 - 218 páginas What the humanities are, what they stand for, and what values they foster or disclaim are no longer cozy academic issues: they are under attack everywhere in legislative assemblies and the national press. The crisis is now especially intense but it is not exactly new. In 1798 Immanuel Kant published Der Streit der Fakultäten (The Conflict of the Faculties), a remarkable little book that has been credited with shaping the liberal arts program in modern European universities. Discussing the role and status of the higher faculties (theology, law, and medicine) relative to the lower faculties (philosophy, mathematics, history, philology, geography), Kant established their functions as faculties of freedom on one side and of property on the other. Kant's book, so long neglected by all but the most devoted specialists, can no longer be ignored. It serves as the basis for these essays by distinguished scholars who have themselves been deeply involved in the intellectual conflicts of contemporary education in Europe and America—Timothy Bahti, Alan Bass, Jacques Derrida, Peggy Kamuf, John Llewelyn, Christie McDonald, and Robert Young. This volume will attract a hive of controversy but much honey, too. It confronts issues central to university ideals: the teaching of values, the role of philosophy and literary studies in their sister disciplines (especially history), the precarious balance between research and teaching, the defense of intellectual autonomy, and the public responsibility of the university. |
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... Condorcet is not totally clear . His role in many of their speeches may have been considerable . Talleyrand presented his long report on public instruction on 10 , 11 , and 19 September 1791. That report was never dis- cussed . Condorcet ...
... Condorcet himself diverted his attention from education to the drafting of a new constitution . When this constitution was presented and rejected by the Robespierrists , Condorcet was one of the few who defended it publicly and ...
... Condorcet's ' Report , ' see F. de La Fontainerie's French Liberalism and Education in the Eighteenth Cen- tury ( New York : Burt Franklin Reprint , 1971 ; orig . publ . 1932 ) . 10. See Catherine Kintzler's fine study , Condorcet : L ...
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