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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... Mme de Staël answered by relating language to the foundation of a dem- ocratic state . In ' De la littérature , ' she writes : ' The purity of language , the nobility of expressions , as images of the pride of the soul , are necessary ...
... Mme de Staël , however , raises the question of women and women's education to another level in ' De la littérature ' : she shows how women might assume power and take a role of leadership within society , and at a certain level she ...
... Mme de Staël's criticism is sharp : the lesson of the Revolution had been that men thought it politically and morally useful to downgrade women , attempting to reduce them to absurd mediocrity . Although the Revolution changed many ...
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The Injured University | 57 |
A Complete Revolution | 77 |
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