The Humboldtian Tradition: Origins and Legacies 9004271929, 9789004271920
In The Humboldtian Tradition, eleven scholars consider Wilhelm von Humboldt as a historical phenomenon and a contemporar
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Table of contents :
Contents
About the Authors
Introduction: The Humboldtian Tradition and Its Transformations • Peter Josephson, Thomas Karlsohn and Johan Östling
Part 1: Historical Origins
1 The Publication Mill: The Beginnings of Publication History as an Academic Merit in German Universities, 1750–1810 • Peter Josephson
2 On Humboldtian and Contemporary Notions of The Academic Lecture • Thomas Karlsohn
3 It Takes a Real Man to Show True Femininity: Gender Transgression in Goethe’s and Humboldt’s Concept of Bildung • Claudia Lindén
Part 2: Transformations of a Tradition
4 Humboldt the Undead: Multiple Uses of ‘Humboldt’ and his ‘Death’ in The ‘Bologna’ Era • Mitchell G. Ash
5 ‘Humboldt’ in Belgium: Rhetoric on the German University Model 8 Pieter Dhondt
6 The Regeneration of the University: Karl Jaspers and the Humboldtian Tradition in the Wake of the Second World War • Johan Östling
7 When Humboldt Met Marx: The 1970s Leftist Student Movement and the Idea of the University in Finland • Marja Jalava
Part 3: Contemporary Contentions
8 ‘Humboldt’, Humbug! Contemporary Mobilizations of ‘Humboldt’ as a Discourse to Support the Corporatization and Marketization of Universities and Disparage Alternatives • Susan Wright
9 Philosophy, Freedom, and the Task of the University: Reflections on Humboldt’s Legacy • Hans Ruin
10 Reclaiming Norms: The Value of Normative Structures for the University as Workplace and Enterprise • Ylva Hasselberg
11 The Very Idea of Higher Education: Vocation of Man or Vocational Training? • Sharon Rider
Index
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