TY - BOOK AU - �stling,Johan TI - Humboldt and the modern German university: An intellectual history PY - 2018/// CY - Lund PB - Lund University Press KW - 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 KW - bicssc KW - Germany KW - History of education KW - History of ideas KW - academic ideals KW - Alexander von Humboldt KW - Berlin KW - bildung KW - germany KW - history of knowledge KW - history of the university KW - humboldtian tradition KW - intellectual history KW - Karl Jaspers KW - Nazism KW - research university KW - university KW - wilhelm von humboldt N1 - Open Access N2 - This book is about the idea of the university in modern Germany. Its primary focus is how the transformation of the Humboldtian tradition gave direction to debates around higher education. By combining approaches from intellectual history, conceptual history and the history of knowledge, the study investigates the ways in which Humboldt's ideas have been appropriated for various purposes in different historical contexts and epochs. Ultimately, it shows that Humboldt's ideals are not timeless - they are historical phenomena and have always been determined by the predicaments and issues of the day. Nevertheless, many of the key concepts and fundamental ideas have endured throughout the twentieth century, though they have been interpreted in different ways UR - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30499 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/063d1765-008d-47e4-9c08-ef384c646da9/646121.pdf ER -