58 research outputs found
The Bastion of Liberty
Leiden University was conceived as the embodiment of specifically academic ethics which sought to improve society through a cumulative process of knowledge acquisition. Drawing on the idea of Leiden as a 'bastion of liberty', the renowned historian Willem Otterspeer proposes that concepts such as 'equilibrium' and 'mediation' are key to understanding the university as an institution. Modernity and scale expansion have made Leiden University a different institution in the twentyfirst century, one scarcely comparable to what had gone before. As this lively and erudite study shows, a university is a form of social capital, one of Western society's answers to the dilemma of collective action, an instrument for preserving and restoring equilibrium, and hence for fostering continuity. From this vantage point, a university is a confidence-building mechanism that generates solutions to the serious problems facing society today. Also available in Dutch: "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789087280246">ISBN 978 90 8728 024
Reply. Against Latour - on the questionable foundations of post-critical pedagogy
Critique has run out of steam - this diagnosis by Bruno Latour is crucial for the "Manifesto for a Post-Critical Pedagogy" as well as for the on_education issue "The Fatigue of Critique?". With this essay, the author contradicts Latour\u27s diagnosis. Latour\u27s polemic against critique is based firstly on a questionable diagnosis of our time and secondly on a general and programmatic critique of sociology. Against that, the author brings out two main points. The first insight highlights that change is initially dependent on variations that can only arise from a negation of the existing. The second insight comes from the sociology of critique, which paradoxically sees success in the failure of critique. (DIPF/Orig.
Metamorphosis. Jolles and Huizinga and Comparative Literature
This essay gives an outline of a shared âintellectual constitutionâ, the spiritual bioi parallelloi that united two Dutch scholars, AndrĂ© Jolles and Johan Huizinga, in their endeavour of cultural analysis and cultural criticism. First, it presents the background of their effort, the world of learning they shared with philologists such as Ernst Robert Curtius, Leo Spitzer and Erich Auerbach. It explains, in particular, the idea of cultural harmony and of methodological notions like that of the possibility to extrapolate from small facts to large issues, and of cultural criticism as a counteroffensive against the loss of harmony. Next, the essay focuses on the common creativity of Jolles and Huizinga and their views on metamorphosis as the inner mechanism of cultural change. For both of them, the notion of form was a trait dâunion between mutable life and immutable human nature. Forms, that existed in a limited number, in typological series of social identities or cultural genres, were their main tool in cultural analysis and criticism.Cet essai se veut lâesquisse dâune « constitution intellectuelle » partagĂ©e, de bioi paralelloi spirituels, qui ont uni deux savants nĂ©erlandais, AndrĂ© Jolles et Johan Huizinga, dans leurs efforts dâanalyse et de critique culturelle. Dâabord, il prĂ©sente le contexte de cette aspiration, câest-Ă -dire le monde de savoir que ces deux hommes ont partagĂ© avec des philologues comme Ernst Robert Curtius, Leo Spitzer et Erich Auerbach. Ainsi sont expliquĂ©es lâidĂ©e dâharmonie culturelle et des notions mĂ©thodologiques comme le lien tissĂ© entre les petits faits et les grandes questions, et est prĂ©sentĂ©e lâidĂ©e de la critique culturelle en tant que contre-offensive contre la perte dâharmonie. Ensuite, lâessai fait le point sur la crĂ©ativitĂ© commune de Jolles et Huizinga, et de leurs interprĂ©tations de la mĂ©tamorphose comme un mĂ©canisme interne de changement culturel. Pour ces deux hommes, la notion de forme a constituĂ© le trait dâunion entre la vie muable et la nature humaine immuable. Ces formes, qui se produisent en nombre limitĂ© et en sĂ©ries typologiques dâidentitĂ©s sociales ou de genres culturels, Ă©taient leur principal outil dâanalyse et de critique culturelle
Edele wijze lieve bijzondere : een bondige geschiedenis van de Leidse universiteit
'Edele wijse discrete lieve besundere,â zo luidde de aanvang van de brief die Willem van Oranje op 28 december 1574 vanuit Middelburg aan de Staten van Holland en Zeeland schreef. Hij deed er het voorstel in om een universiteit op te richten. Het zou het eerste archiefstuk worden van de Leidse universiteit. Aan die brief ontleende Willem Otterspeer de titel voor deze beknopte geschiedenis. Het is het verhaal van vier eeuwen, waarin de universiteit van Leiden de lotgevallen van Nederland deelde en representatief was voor de belangrijkste ontwikkelingen in de wetenschap. Het is tegelijk ook een beetje een liefdesverklaring aan een van de mooiste instellingen op aarde.Uitgave naar aanleiding van het 88ste lustrumjaar van de Universiteit Leiden9789400602144 (epdf)Populariserende publicati
The bastion of liberty : Leiden University today and yesterday
Leiden University was conceived as the embodiment of specifically academic ethics which sought to improve society through a cumulative process of knowledge acquisition. Drawing on the idea of Leiden as a 'bastion of liberty', the renowned historian Willem Otterspeer proposes that concepts such as 'equilibrium' and 'mediation' are key to understanding the university as an institution. Modernity and scale expansion have made Leiden University a different institution in the twentyfirst century, one scarcely comparable to what had gone before. As this lively and erudite study shows, a university is a form of social capital, one of Western society's answers to the dilemma of collective action, an instrument for preserving and restoring equilibrium, and hence for fostering continuity. From this vantage point, a university is a confidence-building mechanism that generates solutions to the serious problems facing society today. Also available in Dutch: "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789087280246">ISBN 978 90 8728 024
Russian Students at Leyden University : The Case of the Kurakin Brothers
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Good, gratifying and renowned : a concise history of Leiden University
This is the story of four centuries during which Leiden University shared the fate of the Netherlands, and became representative of the most important advances in academic research. At the same time it is a declaration of adoration to one of Europeâs most leading international universities. On 28 December 1574, William of Orange wrote a letter to the States General of the provinces of Holland and Zeeland from the town of Middelburg. He came to the representatives with a proposal, a dream actually, with the plan for founding âa good, gratifying and renowned school or universityâ. This letter would become the first document in the archives of Leiden University, offering an apt title for this concise history.Translated from the Dutch by John R.J. Eyck9789400602267 (e-pdf)Populariserende publicati
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Het bolwerk van de vrijheid : De Leidse universiteit in heden en verleden
Leiden University was conceived as the embodiment of specifically academic ethics which sought to improve society through a cumulative process of knowledge acquisition. Drawing on the idea of Leiden as a 'bastion of liberty', the renowned historian Willem Otterspeer proposes that concepts such as 'equilibrium' and 'mediation' are key to understanding the university as an institution. Modernity and scale expansion have made Leiden University a different institution in the twentyfirst century, one scarcely comparable to what had gone before. As this lively and erudite study shows, a university is a form of social capital, one of Western society's answers to the dilemma of collective action, an instrument for preserving and restoring equilibrium, and hence for fostering continuity. From this vantage point, a university is a confidence-building mechanism that generates solutions to the serious problems facing society today.ISBN : 978908728024
Inleiding. De geschiedenis van de historiografie: tussen uiterlijk relativisme en innerlijke norm
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