- Title
- Thinking academic freedom
- Creator
- Lange, Lis
- Subject
- Academic Freedom -- South Africa Universities and colleges -- South Africa Equality Liberty Education and state -- South Africa Education, Higher -- South Africa
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/784
- Identifier
- vital:19990
- Description
- I have titled this lecture Thinking Academic Freedom, because I would like to make thinking in the Arendtian sense the axis along which to organise this exposition. It was interesting for me that when I sent the title of the lecture I was asked whether I meant thinking or rethinking. It is true that we tend to rethink, revisit and review in the titles of our lectures and papers. This usually means that the accent is not so much on the act of thinking but on the object we are trying to examine. For this occasion, I would like to make the act of thinking itself as important an aspect of the lecture as the issue of academic freedom itself. What interests me is to explore the nature of our work as academics and how this relates to the notion of academic freedom. So, this is my proposed itinerary: I will first stop to flag some of the issues we all know about, current debates on academic freedom which inevitably constitute one layer of the background for these reflections; then I would like to explore with the lens of Hannah Arendt's political thinking the meaning of freedom and thinking in relation to the life of academics. I will then complicate matters further by jumping from Arendt to Pierre Bourdieu's Homo Academicus, after which I hope to land in the not too comfortable terrain of a call to action.
- Format
- pdf, 8 leaves
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Daantjie Oosthuizen Memorial Lectures, S.C.S. Oosthuizen Memorial Lectures
- Rights
- Lange, Lis
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