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2020 ◽  
pp. 209-225
Author(s):  
Sławomir Drelich

Ayn Rand and Allan Bloom are among the most well-known American critics of the contemporary universities. They both point out that the crisis of modern university is a reflection of a much broader crisis of contemporary culture. The purpose of this text is to present the arguments of both thinkers, which confirm the diagnosis of the university crisis. In Rand and Bloom’s work we can find the characteristics of a number of symptoms of this crisis. The most important are: 1) the political and ideological entanglement of the university environment; 2) all-encompassing skepticism; 3) the lack of a coherent vision of reality; 4) irrationality and departure from reason; 5) the postulate of neutrality and the avoidance of moral judgments; 6) retreat from philosophy and humanistic education.


Author(s):  
Bogusław Dopart

Badacz analizuje przejawy i cechy współczesnego etosu wykładowcy akademickiego (tzn. badacza i nauczyciela), konfrontując swoje obserwacje z wypowiedziami takich osób, jak Kazimierz Twardowski, Allan Bloom, Bill Readings, Jacek Bieliński, Robert Merton, Alasdair MacIntyre i inni. Jak przyznaje autor, w dzisiejszej sytuacji społeczności akademickiej, poddanej rywalizacji i korporacyjnej autorytarności – podstawowego znaczenia i wartości nieoszacowanej nabiera bezpośrednia, osobowa, dialogiczna, twórcza relacja między uczonymi, adeptami nauki i studentami. W dzisiejszym dyskursie o uniwersytecie wybitnie eksponowanym wątkiem jest refleksja na temat relacji mistrz – uczeń.  


Author(s):  
Błażej Marek Zych

<p>Punktem wyjścia jest zaniepokojenie związane z zanikaniem fundamentów kultury europejskiej. W paradygmacie klasycznym artysta pracował na bazie idealnego obrazu w swej duszy. Ta wizja została odrzucona. Nowożytność zaproponowała ludzkości racjonalizm, wolność i równość. Efektem tych dobrych intencji jest psychodeliczny bazar. Człowiek idąc w nim jest zdezorientowany, a jego odczuwanie doprowadzone do granic wytrzymałości. Ta wykorzeniona istota skazane jest na kulturalne tułactwo. Ucieczką od tego impasu jest powrót do pytania Archimedesa o punkt oparcia i zastanowienie się nad tym, co w ludzkiej naturze niezmienne a co przypadkowe i przemijalne.</p><strong>The Classic Pattern and Mass Man as Interpreted by the Contemporary Theorists of Society and Culture: Daniel Bell, Allan Bloom, and Jose Ortega y Gasset</strong><p>SUMMARY</p><p>The starting point for the analysis is an anxiety associated with the vanishing of the foundations of European culture. In the classical paradigm, the artist worked on the basis of an ideal image that s/he carried in his/her soul. However, this vision was rejected. Modernity offered rationalism, freedom, and equality to the humankind. The result of this fundamental change is the so-called “psychedelic bazaar” – a certain form of culture continually offering new, surprising and often extreme experiences. By following them, a person is disoriented and his/her feeling is driven to the breaking point. Consequently, s/he is like an uprooted being condemned to cultural wandering. The way out of this impasse is to return to Archimedes’ question about the point of support, and to ponder over the invariable in human culture and the accidental and transitory.</p>


2012 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 207-290
Author(s):  
Tomasz Stefanek

The author constitutes a reconstruction of Allan Bloom’s position on the relationship between the philosopher and the political community, which is important to philosophical tradition, as is symbolised by Socrates and his dispute with the Athenian polis. Texts authored by Bloom, as well as the Saul Bellow’s novel Ravelstein, provided the basis for the reconstruction. The novel’s protagonist, a professor of philosophy by the name of Abe Ravelstein, was modelled on Allan Bloom, while Chick, the narrator, corresponds to the author himself. Ravelstein is the story of their friendship, which has lasted from Bloom’s return to the University of Chicago in 1978 until his death in 1992. The article brings Bloom’s reflections closer to the Polish philosophical space, where they are, as yet, not widely known.


2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-83
Author(s):  
Michael Zuckert
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