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The Bastion of Liberty Leiden University Today and Yesterday

Willem Otterspeer on the history of the Leiden University, a 'bastion of liberty'. Key to understanding the university as an institution.

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  • "Leiden University today and yesterday"@en
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  • "Willem Otterspeer on the history of the Leiden University, a 'bastion of liberty'. Key to understanding the university as an institution."@en
  • "Willem Otterspeer on the history of the Leiden University, a 'bastion of liberty'. Key to understanding the university as an institution."
  • "Historisch overzicht in woord en beeld."
  • "Leiden University was conceived as the embodiment of specifically academic ethics which sought to improve society through a cumulative process of knowledge acquisition. Drawing on the idea of Leiden as a 'bastion of liberty', the renowned historian Willem Otterspeer proposes that concepts such as 'equilibrium' and 'mediation' are key to understanding the university as an institution. Modernity and scale expansion have made Leiden University a different institution in the twentyfirst century, one scarcely comparable to what had gone before. As this lively and erudite study shows, a university is a form of social capital, one of Western society's answers to the dilemma of collective action, an instrument for preserving and restoring equilibrium, and hence for fostering continuity. From this vantage point, a university is a confidencebuilding mechanism that generates solutions to the serious problems facing society today. Also available in Dutch: "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789087280246">ISBN 978 90 8728 024 6"

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  • "Computer network resources"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Livres électroniques"
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  • "The Bastion of liberty : Leiden University today and yesterday"
  • "The Bastion of Liberty Leiden University Today and Yesterday"@en
  • "The Bastion of Liberty Leiden University Today and Yesterday"
  • "The bastion of liberty : Leiden University today and yesterday"@en
  • "The bastion of liberty : Leiden University today and yesterday"
  • "The bastion of liberty Leiden University today and yesterday"@en
  • "The bastion of liberty Leiden University today and yesterday"
  • "Het bolwerk van de vrijheid De Leidse universiteit in heden en verleden"
  • "Het bolwerk van de vrijheid : de Leidse universiteit in heden en verleden"
  • "Het bolwerk van de vrijheid de Leidse universiteit in heden en verleden"

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