The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of Its Pupils

Derrida, Jacques; Porter, Catherine; Morris, Edward

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“…What might the University's diaphragm be? 35 Here, Derrida implies that thought, learning, knowledge of any kind itself requires 'regular intervals' at which to pause, rest, evaluate. And the R.A.E., it goes without saying, comes at regular intervals, in order to undertake evaluation exercises.…”

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2004

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“…Such concepts resonate with the libertarianism of Woodcock and others, 21 and systematic exponents of a radical school of thought include Lacan 22 and Derrida," both of whom have been influential in architectural criticism. We will visit the theoretical position of radical hermeneutics in relation to language subsequently, but in summary, the radical position problematises the issue of authority, 24 advancing on certain ideas in critical theory.…”

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The Production of Architectural Criticism

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2000

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“…The human sciences as distinct from the humanities or arts, are part of a technologization of the university to which Lyotard first pointed in The Postmodern Condition, 88 and are thus part of what Derrida calls the 'end-orientation' of research. 89 Arguably they have never really taken root in the North American curriculum, even if they did exist in France when Foucault wrote The Order of Things, especially in the theoretically updated form of structuralism, and even if they thus continue to exist as a governmental fantasy. But the bureaucratic fiction of the human sciences is matched by another discourse or 'institution' in Godwin's terms, internal to the university and indeed to faculties of humanities, namely Cultural Studies, which can also be posed against the university without condition whose origins Derrida traces back to Kant and Schelling, if not Hegel.…”

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“…59 In his work on the university, Derrida refers to these as 'intersciences', meaning 'any thematic, any field... that the map of institutions at a given moment does not yet grant stable, accredited form'. 60 Briefly, Hegel builds his system of normal physiology around the well-known tripartite scheme of sensibility, irritability and reproduction that Idealism adapted from Albrecht von Haller and John Brown. 61 He further uses this scheme to describe the stages of self-consciousness.…”

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The encyclopedia and the university of theory: idealism and the organization of knowledge

Rajan

2007

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The encyclopedia and the university of theory: idealism and the organization of knowledge The Enlightenment is often described as 'the age of the encyclopedia', 1 a term meaning 'circle of learning', which is involved in questions of how we construct disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity. As such, encyclopedias share something with universities, which also try to accommodate a multiplicity of knowledges, while organising them into disciplines and faculties that raise questions of what qualifies as knowledge, and where it is centred. Encyclopedias are proto-universities which at certain points in history connect with conceptions of the university. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the encyclopedia's archive fever, its multiplication of areas of knowledge and thus fragmentation of Knowledge (with a capital K) was held in check by the trope of the book as mirror of creation. The long eighteenth century, however, witnessed several new encyclopedic enterprises connected with the constitution of modernity, which Gianni Vattimo defines as 'the epoch in which simply being modern' becomes 'a decisive value in itself'. 2 In France Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie modelled knowledge as being up-to-date, with a bias towards politics and a Baconian bias towards the pragmatic. The Encyclopédie, which to be sure included entries on aesthetic forms, also had entries on taxation and the jury system, and more particularly the mechanical arts. It also consolidated, even if it did not invent, the form of the encyclopedia as alphabetized dictionary. In the long term this form reduced the encyclopedia to a secondary reference system that stored rather than synthesized knowledge, and thus inscribed a conception of knowledge as information or technology rather than philosophy. The Scottish Encyclopedia Britannica was different, but no less a form of epistemic management connected with the instituting of a certain modernity. Its early editions retained as their goal to organize rather than simply to provide an inventory of knowledge. Thus the Encyclopedia Britannica presented systems of several individual sciences to which short entries on terms were attached or cross-referenced. Considered alongside the production of dictionaries of individual sciences, and the role

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The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of Its Pupils

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