Authority, Tradition and the Postmodern University
- The postmodern university is experiencing a legitimation crisis because of a deepening and corrosive mistrust of all forms of authority; even those that are intended to benefit students by enabling them to >think critically<, or to deepen and improve their knowledge and skills. Some of the problem is rooted in prevailing cultural and economic trends, but others inhere in the nature of postmodernism itself; especially the postmodern claim that truth itself is non-existent or simply unattainable or unavailable, even at the best of times. Unlike earlier generations of critical theorists, who believed that >the truth shall make you free<, postmodern theorists, following Nietzsche, claim that the very idea of truth is moot, if not entirely obsolete. But absent a commitment to a search for truth, the entire structure of the university itself begins to crumble.
MetadatenAuthor: | Daniel Burston |
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Parent Title (English): | Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, Vol. 3 (No. 5) 2018, pp. 90-99. |
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Document Type: | Articles |
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Language: | English |
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Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
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Release Date: | 2019/03/04 |
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Format: | PDF-file to download |
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IdNo: | Burston_D_2018 |
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Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature): | Articles / Artikel |
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Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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