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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... essay , others indirectly , working out of it , against it , around it , or away from it . The impetus for this symposium came from a similar event held at Columbia Univer- sity in April 1980 , celebrating the centennial of Columbia's ...
... essay ; I confined my references to several points in his ' Mochlos ' essay where he alludes to a possible con- tradiction within the reasoning of Kant's university model.2 As I con- tinue an inquiry into Kant's Conflict of the ...
... essay pub- lished in 1969 under the heading " Time and Being.'44 There Heidegger refers to his statement in the ' Letter on Humanism ' that ' The esti gar einai of Parmenides is still unthought today.45 It is unthought if Par- menides ...
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