REKVIJEM ZA HUMBOLTA: BILDUNG I ZEITGEIST
REQUIEM FOR HUMBOLDT: BILDUNG AND ZEITGEIST

Summary/Abstract: The paper is dedicated to Humboldt ‘s understanding of the concept of Bildung and its reception to this day. In the triangle of Humboldt’s ’Theory of Human Education’ and his later writings, Adorno’s ’Theory of Half-Education’ and Liessmann’s ’Theory of Non-Education’, the fate of not only discursive changes in the focus of that educational vision is followed, but also the efforts of its practical implementation, betrayal and rejection. After the contextually situating Humboldt’s endeavor, the basic ideas of his comprehension of education and his ambiguous efforts to realize them are presented. The second and final part of the paper try to calculate the costs and perspectives of both the realization of Bildung’s ideals and its abandonment.

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