@article{ART002652291},
author={Kim, Dong Gyu},
title={The Idea of the University and the Solitude},
journal={Philosophical Investigation},
issn={1598-7213},
year={2020},
volume={60},
pages={131-163},
doi={10.33156/philos.2020.60..005}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kim, Dong Gyu
TI - The Idea of the University and the Solitude
JO - Philosophical Investigation
PY - 2020
VL - 60
IS - null
PB - Institute of philosophy in Chung-Ang Univ.
SP - 131
EP - 163
SN - 1598-7213
AB - This paper attempts to examine whether Humboldt’s concept of ‘solitude’ can be reconstructed into the idea of the future university. As is well known, Humboldt is a philosopher who made the idea of the modern university. As a philosopher he wasn't just making an idea, but he was also a practitioner who formulated and implemented German educational policies based on that idea, and was the founder of the University of Berlin(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Humboldt presents ‘solitude and freedom’ as the principles that should govern universities. At first glance, the two concepts, solitude and freedom, seem very similar. This is because the solitude, separating and independent from the other, is an aspect of freedom. In fact, Studies on Humboldt's thought on university have tended to focus mainly on ‘freedom’.
First, I will deal with the concept of solitude discussed inside the Humboldt’s text. Humboldt presents solitude as the inner organizational principle of the university. Solitude is a form of life as well as a mood for a scholar pursuing only scholarship. Next, we look at the solitude of the university as a corporation in history. The university was born twice in the Middle Ages and modern times, and the freedom is a prerequisite for university formation. Kant, who designed the idea of a modern university for the first time, tried to secure the autonomy of the university through the ‘discord’ between the upper and lower faculties. Kant’s discord is the predecessor of Humboldtian solitude, in that struggling is bound to be solitude. After clarifying that the crisis of the university may be brought about as a result of the neglecting the solitude, I will elucidate the solitude as an existential mood of the academic creativity. And we will conclude that the university without solitude does not have something like Barth’s ‘punctum’.
KW - solitude;freedom;university;idea;punctum;Humboldt;Kant
DO - 10.33156/philos.2020.60..005
ER -
Kim, Dong Gyu. (2020). The Idea of the University and the Solitude. Philosophical Investigation, 60, 131-163.
Kim, Dong Gyu. 2020, "The Idea of the University and the Solitude", Philosophical Investigation, vol.60, pp.131-163. Available from: doi:10.33156/philos.2020.60..005
Kim, Dong Gyu "The Idea of the University and the Solitude" Philosophical Investigation 60 pp.131-163 (2020) : 131.
Kim, Dong Gyu. The Idea of the University and the Solitude. 2020; 60 131-163. Available from: doi:10.33156/philos.2020.60..005
Kim, Dong Gyu. "The Idea of the University and the Solitude" Philosophical Investigation 60(2020) : 131-163.doi: 10.33156/philos.2020.60..005
Kim, Dong Gyu. The Idea of the University and the Solitude. Philosophical Investigation, 60, 131-163. doi: 10.33156/philos.2020.60..005
Kim, Dong Gyu. The Idea of the University and the Solitude. Philosophical Investigation. 2020; 60 131-163. doi: 10.33156/philos.2020.60..005
Kim, Dong Gyu. The Idea of the University and the Solitude. 2020; 60 131-163. Available from: doi:10.33156/philos.2020.60..005
Kim, Dong Gyu. "The Idea of the University and the Solitude" Philosophical Investigation 60(2020) : 131-163.doi: 10.33156/philos.2020.60..005
