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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... sense but in another sense as well . It is worth pausing for a moment to ponder what a peculiar revolution the Reagan Revolution has been . True , we seem to have broken with the past , or at least the immediate past . And true , we ...
... sense that implies a bending back . In the case of the direct self - feeling of moral feeling , re- spect , I know myself as responsible . ' Respect reveals the dignity before which and for which the self knows itself to be responsible ...
The Conflict of the Faculties Richard Rand. and narrower sense , the wider sense being that of which each division mentions an aspect , the narrower sense being that specified in the sec- ond class , man's all - too - human humanness ...
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