Academic freedom in the European context [electronic resource] : legal, philosophical and institutional perspectives / Ivo De Gennaro, Hannes Hofmeister, Ralf Lüfter, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Gennaro, Ivo, editor.

Hofmeister, Hannes, editor.

Lüfter, Ralf, editor.

Series:

Palgrave critical university studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic freedom--Europe.

Academic freedom.

Europe.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Summary:

This book explores the concept of academic freedom from a European vantage point. Drawing on both philosophical and legal perspectives, the editors and contributors analyse the concept of academic freedom within the present institutional setting. Academic freedom has long been considered a natural part of higher education, but as the world enters the digital age, a renewed understanding of its role and the threats it must face is required. The authors question the purpose of science without freedom, and subsequently the purpose of political communities without free science. Although the book uses European case studies to answer these questions, it undoubtedly has global relevance: what would be left of the present notion of the global world were we to conceive of its character without modern science? This book calls for a critical re-examination of the academic community and its own understanding of the sources, conditions and aims of scientific practice. Ivo De Gennaro is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Hannes Hofmeister is Assistant Professor of European Law at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Ralf Lufter is Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Time and Value

Chapter 2. Abolition of Time, Alienation from Truth, and the Heteronomy of Academia

Chapter 3. Academic Freedom To what End? Notes on the Ethical Dimension of Scholarship

Chapter 4. A Knowledge-Based Conception of Academic Freedom

Chapter 5. Anonymity as a Threat to Academic Freedom

Chapter 6. Autonomy for Whom? Governance of What? The Rationality of Academic Freedom. Chapter 7. Freedom of Research in Austria

Chapter 8. Freedom of Science in Germany Constitutional Guarantee and Current Hazard Situation

Chapter 9. Academic Freedom in France: A Concept Neglected and Liberties under Threat

Chapter 10. Academic Freedom from the Perspective of the United Kingdom

Chapter 11. The Darkest Hour: Private Information Control and the End of Democratic Science

Chapter 12. The Protection of Scientific Freedom Under the European Charter of Fundamental Rights - A Critical Analysis. Chapter 13. Academic Freedom Versus Institutional Evaluation of Research

Chapter 14. State-Fostered Immaturity? Kant, Galileo and the Grand Evaluator.

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Print version: Academic freedom in the European context

ISBN:

9783030869311

3030869318

OCLC:

1296913105

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