Dlaczego ludzie nauki zaprzestali masowych protestów?
Why Have Scholars Stopped Protesting?

A Few Remarks on the Idea of University and Scientific Consumption

Author(s): Marek Jedliński
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: idea of university; culture; protest; consumption; scientist
Summary/Abstract: The author explores the issue of protest as an element of the traditionally understood path of intellectual development. The opposition against pragmatism and critical thinking should be – as famous researchers of the idea of a university believe (Jaspers, Newman) – the primary responsibility of the scientist. The author of the article claims that under the influence of contemporary process of consumption of science, we should be asking ourselves: „Why are we not protesting?”.

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