What does "academic" mean? : two essays on the chances of the university today /
"What Does "Academic" Mean? focuses, in two essays, on the prospects of contemporary universities. The term "academic" is traced back to Plato's Academy in a grove in Athens. The Academy is isolated, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Western universities...
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South Bend, Indiana :
St. Augustine's Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- A western concept
- Philosophical mean theoretical
- Destruction through being pressed into service
- "The exclusive property of the gods"
- The "worker" and the sophist
- Separation from "the many"
- Purity of the theoria
- The philosophiser and the ancients
- A new rootedness in cult?
- Experience behind the institutions
- Spirit as receptivity to the totality of the world
- The role of the sciences
- Philosophy as the center of the university
- Openness to every conceivable aspect
- Openness to "disputations".