Programska knjižica - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

UNIVERSITY, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND NEOLIBERAL
HEGEMONY
Historically perceived, university as an institution, and higher education as
a lengthy and complex process of acquiring knowledge, were exposed, from the
very beginning, to their transformative imperatives. The basic intention of this
presentation is to offer diachronic-synchronic view of contradictory tendencies
that determine recent economic and political debate on the issues of purpose
and mission of university and higher education today. They can be roughly
reduced to dichotomy disputes, for example: educational ideals of universality
and totality vs. university specialization and fragmentation of knowledge;
education as a universal principle that gains its legitimacy and confirmation
within their own criteria (university autonomy) vs. notion of university as a
service agent in service of economic or political interests and market priorities.
The focus of presentation will be placed on current trends related to university
and higher education, with an attempt to emphasize the intensive discursive
production of symptomatic signifiers of previously mentioned trends, such as
knowledge society, academic excellence and mobility, flow, networking… The
presentation will show that even a basic analytical effort in deconstructing
these terms can clearly point out the fact that they are ideologemes in the service
of the hegemonic tendencies of neoliberalism and its interests.
LUKA ILIĆ
Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany /
Leibniz Institut za europsku povijest, Mainz, Njemačka
MATTHIAS FLACIUS ILLYRICUS AS A TEACHER
AT THE EARLY MODERN LUTHERAN UNIVERSITIES
OF WITTENBERG AND JENA
This paper explores the teaching career of the Croatian-born Matthias
Flacius Illyricus (1520–1575) at the newly founded early modern evangelical
universities in Saxony and Thuringia. Flacius, who had been a student in
Wittenberg, obtained his first teaching post at the Faculty of Arts as a teacher
of Hebrew in 1544, a position he held until Easter 1549. After an academic
hiatus between 1549 and 1557 spent in Magdeburg, which nonetheless denoted
an important period of gaining broad recognition as a theologian and church
historian, Flacius was invited to take up the post of chair in New Testament at
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