This article makes the case for the relevance of Kant’s perception in
The Contest of the Faculties of the Humanities (as Philosophy) both to
the university and to society in general. It illustrates this point by commenting on
20th-century essays by such diverse thinkers as Freud, Weber and Hayek. It suggests
that the future of the Humanities is forcefully intertwined with that of science and
culture in general and should not be considered minor or strange to larger changes
in those fields, social or academic.
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(1955 [1917]) ‘A difficulty in the path of
psychoanalysis’, in S. Freud Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund
Freud Vol. XVII, (trans. Joan Riviere), pp. 135-144.
London: Hogarth Press
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2.
Hayek, F. A.
(1967) Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press
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3.
Kant, E.
(1991 [1798]) ‘The Contest of the
Faculties’, in
H. S. Reiss
(ed.) Kant: Political Writings (trans. H.B. Nisbet), pp.
176-190.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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4.
Weber, M.
(1989 [1917]) ‘Science as a Vocation’,
in Peter Lassman and Irving Velody with Herminio MartinsMax Weber’s ‘Science as a Vocation’, pp.
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