The University According to Humboldt History, Policy, and Future Possibilities /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Backhaus, Jürgen Georg (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Economics, 89
• Subjects: Economic history.; Economic policy.; Social policy.; Economics.; Methodology/History of Economic Thought.; Social Policy.; Economic Policy.

This book discusses the philosophy and educational reforms initiated by Wilhelm von Humboldt as well as their legacy in the modern university system. It begins with a discussion of the history of the university from antiquity and the Middle Ages through the era of Humboldt’s reforms and its remnants...

Table of Contents:

• The University Before Humboldt and After
• Macroculture, Education and Democracy: Lessons from Ancient Greece
• The University according to Humboldt and the Alternatives
• University Studies at Hardenberg’s and Humboldt’s Time and the Professionalization of University Studies Today
• The Lexicographical Utility Function of Fertility Decisions and Humboldt’s Political Principles of the State
• The University: Idea and Practice
• What remains of Humboldt at times of the Bologna Reform?.