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Die Zukunft der Universität
The Future of the University

Author(s): Nikolaus Müller-Schöll
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Higher Education , History of Education, Sociology of Education
Published by: Naučno udruženje Sociološki diskurs
Keywords: university; a crisis; reform; the future; the university without conditions; event; others;

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the settings contained in the history of the modern university, request that he be appointed and who is present in both the past and in contemporary conflicts on the basis of his concept and ideas, to take an attempt to establish a critical perspective to the university - precisely: every current University. According to the hypothesis, in times of crisis the University to discuss the practical and philosophical issues that were greater than any present and future of the University opened. The future opens only if the crisis does not negate nor suppressed, but affirms and recognizes as a chance to re-establish the inherited institutions. After reviewing the two, in my opinion, the main crisis of the University, around 1800. and 1968. (seen from current position), in the context of the texts of Jacques Derrida, especially his essay "L'université sans conditions" ("University without conditions"), I will show that the future of the University can only think of one starting in each university really existing transcendent instance that it starts but it is not exhausted. Derrida proposes that it be marked as "Event" (and might be translated as: appearance / Second announcement). In it we see the reformulation of a transcendent potential of the University, who notes in his every crisis. In line with contemporary interests, we will deal with historical and theoretical facts only if they provided answers to them are finding the current misery. Finally, they should count at least in the form of keywords.

  • Issue Year: 1/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 31-53
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: German