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Leiden University was conceived as the embodiment of specifically academic ethics which sought to improve society through a cumulative process of knowledge acquisition. Drawing on the idea of Leiden as a 'bastion of liberty', the renowned historian Willem Otterspeer proposes that concepts...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-347972022-04-26T11:18:16Z The Bastion of Liberty Otterspeer, Willem geschiedenis history geography auxiliary disciplines Leiden Leiden University Netherlands bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History Leiden University was conceived as the embodiment of specifically academic ethics which sought to improve society through a cumulative process of knowledge acquisition. Drawing on the idea of Leiden as a 'bastion of liberty', the renowned historian Willem Otterspeer proposes that concepts such as 'equilibrium' and 'mediation' are key to understanding the university as an institution. Modernity and scale expansion have made Leiden University a different institution in the twentyfirst century, one scarcely comparable to what had gone before. As this lively and erudite study shows, a university is a form of social capital, one of Western society's answers to the dilemma of collective action, an instrument for preserving and restoring equilibrium, and hence for fostering continuity. From this vantage point, a university is a confidence-building mechanism that generates solutions to the serious problems facing society today. Also available in Dutch: "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789087280246">ISBN 978 90 8728 024 6 The Bastion of Liberty is het eerste boek over de geschiedenis van de Universiteit Leiden sinds 1875. Vanuit zijn vakgebied, universiteitsgeschiedenis, gaat Willem Otterspeer in op de ruim 200 jaar intense historie. Van oudsher is het een instelling die het midden tussen uitersten zoekt en belichaamde daarin het poldermodel vele eeuwen avant la lettre. Het is een betrokken geschiedenis, geschreven door iemand die van zijn instelling houdt, maar tegelijkertijd professionele afstand weet te houden en ironie niet schuwt. Ook leverbaar in het Nederlands: Het bolwerk van de vrijheid "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789087280246">ISBN 978 90 8728 024 6 2010-12-31 23:55:55 2018-12-03 17:13:49 2020-04-01T15:26:32Z 2020-04-01T15:26:32Z 2008 book 354674 OCN: 567980024 9789087280307 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34797 eng LUP Academic application/pdf n/a 354674.pdf Leiden University Press 10.24415/9789087280307 The Bastion of Liberty is het eerste boek over de geschiedenis van de Universiteit Leiden sinds 1875. Vanuit zijn vakgebied, universiteitsgeschiedenis, gaat Willem Otterspeer in op de ruim 200 jaar intense historie. Van oudsher is het een instelling die het midden tussen uitersten zoekt en belichaamde daarin het poldermodel vele eeuwen avant la lettre. Het is een betrokken geschiedenis, geschreven door iemand die van zijn instelling houdt, maar tegelijkertijd professionele afstand weet te houden en ironie niet schuwt. Ook leverbaar in het Nederlands: Het bolwerk van de vrijheid "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789087280246">ISBN 978 90 8728 024 6 10.24415/9789087280307 276c53fd-5f1d-4065-9fce-9628863ddca8 9789087280307 312 open access
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description Leiden University was conceived as the embodiment of specifically academic ethics which sought to improve society through a cumulative process of knowledge acquisition. Drawing on the idea of Leiden as a 'bastion of liberty', the renowned historian Willem Otterspeer proposes that concepts such as 'equilibrium' and 'mediation' are key to understanding the university as an institution. Modernity and scale expansion have made Leiden University a different institution in the twentyfirst century, one scarcely comparable to what had gone before. As this lively and erudite study shows, a university is a form of social capital, one of Western society's answers to the dilemma of collective action, an instrument for preserving and restoring equilibrium, and hence for fostering continuity. From this vantage point, a university is a confidence-building mechanism that generates solutions to the serious problems facing society today. Also available in Dutch: "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789087280246">ISBN 978 90 8728 024 6
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