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Academic Freedom in the European Context

Legal, Philosophical and Institutional Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Ivo De Gennaro

    1. Faculty of Economics & Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

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  2. Hannes Hofmeister

    1. Faculty of Economics & Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

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  3. Ralf Lüfter

    1. Faculty of Economics & Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

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  • Explores academic freedom in a European context
  • Draws on philosophical and legal perspectives
  • Questions the purpose of science and academia without freedom

Part of the book series: Palgrave Critical University Studies (PCU)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  4. Institutional Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 323-323
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    2. Academic Freedom Versus Institutional Evaluation of Research

      • Susanna Terracini
      Pages 325-332

    3. State-fostered Immaturity? Kant, Galileo, and the Grand Evaluator

      • Giuseppe De Nicolao
      Pages 333-349

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 351-356
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About this book

This book explores the concept of academic freedom from a European vantage point. Drawing on both philosophical and legal perspectives, the editors and contributors analyse the concept of academic freedom within the present institutional setting. Academic freedom has long been considered a natural part of higher education, but as the world enters the digital age, a renewed understanding of its role and the threats it must face is required. The authors question the purpose of science without freedom, and subsequently the purpose of political communities without free science. Although the book uses European case studies to answer these questions, it undoubtedly has global relevance: what would be left of the present notion of the ‘global world’ were we to conceive of its character without modern science? This book calls for a critical re-examination of the academic community and its own understanding of the sources, conditions and aims of scientific practice.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Economics & Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Ivo De Gennaro, Hannes Hofmeister, Ralf Lüfter

About the editors

Ivo De Gennaro is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.


Hannes Hofmeister is Assistant Professor of European Law at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.


Ralf Lüfter is Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

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