Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Thomas Docherty
Keyword(s):  
Political Engagement ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Abstract Thought ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
The University ◽  
Idea Of The University ◽  
The Way

Julien Benda argued in 1946, reprising his 1927 Treason of the Intellectuals, that the intellectual’s primary responsibility was to abstract thought, removing the intellectual from political engagement or ‘passion’. By contrast, Edward Said, essentially extending the thought of Jaspers on the Idea of the University argued that the intellectual’s commitments are absolutely central to her or his identity. In exploring these positions and setting them in their respective historical contexts, this Introduction outlines the ways in which the intellectual has a responsibility towards politics, and exposes the way in which the contemporary university institution conspires to limit the effects of this. The university, today, has a commitment to a specific ideology of market fundamentalism; and the Introduction shows how this rests in prejudice. It thus reveals the fundamental basis on which a contemporary treason of the intellectuals rests, and argues for a rehabilitation of the proper task of the intellectual and of the university.

A Faculdade de Filosofia de Kant e a Ideia Alemã de Universidade

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 79-91
Author(s):  
Luisa Leal de Faria ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Founding Fathers ◽  
The University ◽  
Idea Of The University ◽  
The Way

Kant’s small essay The Conflict of the Faculties was considered by Derrida a blueprint of the modern university, to be born a few years after its publication, through the works of Humboldt, Fichte, Schelling and Schleiermacher. According to Derrida, the concept of a Philosophical Faculty at the centre of the university, responsible for reason and truth, is now extinct. This paper tries to follow the arguments produced by the founding fathers of the modern university, and the way they were recovered at different points in time, by Nietzsche, Heidegger, Jaspers and Habermas, to show that through two centuries of change, the German Idea of the university kept in touch with the main arguments developed by Kant.

Refining Contrapuntal Pedagogy: Reflections on Teaching Warsan Shire’s “Home” and W.H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues” to First-Year Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget Grogan
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
Teaching Poetry ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

This article reports on and discusses the experience of a contrapuntal approach to teaching poetry, explored during 2016 and 2017 in a series of introductory poetry lectures in the English 1 course at the University of Johannesburg. Drawing together two poems—Warsan Shire’s “Home” and W.H. Auden’s “Refugee Blues”—in a week of teaching in each year provided an opportunity for a comparison that encouraged students’ observations on poetic voice, racial identity, transhistorical and transcultural human experience, trauma and empathy. It also provided an opportunity to reflect on teaching practice within the context of decoloniality and to acknowledge the need for ongoing change and review in relation to it. In describing the contrapuntal teaching and study of these poems, and the different methods employed in the respective years of teaching them, I tentatively suggest that canonical Western and contemporary postcolonial poems may reflect on each other in unique and transformative ways. I further posit that poets and poems that engage students may open the way into initially “less relevant” yet ultimately rewarding poems, while remaining important objects of study in themselves.

In Conversation on the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-383
Author(s):  
Rachel Clements ◽  
Sarah Frankcom
Keyword(s):  
Caryl Churchill ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The University ◽  
Artistic Director ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
The Way ◽  
Death Of A Salesman

Sarah Frankcom worked at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester between 2000 and 2019, and was the venue’s first sole Artistic Director from 2014. In this interview conducted in summer 2019, she discusses her time at the theatre and what she has learned from leading a major cultural organization and working with it. She reflects on a number of her own productions at this institution, including Hamlet, The Skriker, Our Town, and Death of a Salesman, and discusses the way the theatre world has changed since the beginning of her career as she looks forward to being the director of LAMDA. Rachel Clements lectures on theatre at the University of Manchester. She has published on playwrights Caryl Churchill and Martin Crimp, among others, and has edited Methuen student editions of Lucy Prebble’s Enron and Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange. She is Book Reviews editor of NTQ.

Skiing all the way to the polls: Exploring the popularity of personalized posts on political Instagram accounts

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 1096-1110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Olof Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Political Engagement ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Way

While research has gauged the degree to which political actors focus on their personal rather than their more public sides in their communication efforts, few studies have assessed the extent to which personalized content succeeds in gaining traction among online followers. The current study does just that, focusing on the Instagram accounts operated by Norwegian parties and party leaders. Results indicate that party leaders emerge as more successful than parties in gaining attention through ‘likes’ and comments and that they offer personalized content to higher degrees than the parties they represent. While personalized content might lead to increased political engagement among citizens, the fact that personalization ‘works’ in terms of gaining attention might also skew political PR and marketing towards excessive use of such themes.

A Demonstration of EFAB™ as a Fundamental Shift in the Way Microdevices Are Manufactured

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Evans ◽  
Christopher Bang
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Southern California ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Manufacturing Technologies ◽  
The University ◽  
Fundamental Shift ◽  
The Way

The authors introduce the EFAB™ manufacturing process originally invented at the University of Southern California and currently being commercialized by MEMGen Corporation. They discuss its significant recent evolution as an alternative to conventional microdevice manufacturing technologies, suggest a range of geometries and applications that are enabled by this process, and develop the case that EFAB represents a fundamental shift in the way the microdevices are manufactured.

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