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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 bu

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Author

Richard Rand; Symposium on the Topic of Kant's Der Streit der Fakultäten

Publisher

The University of Nebraska Press, 901 N. 17th Street, Lincoln, NE 68588-0520 ($13.95)

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803289406

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Philosophy, Western