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            The Bastion of Liberty

            Leiden University Today and Yesterday

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            Otterspeer, Willem
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            English
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            Abstract
            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 confidence-building 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
             
            The Bastion of Liberty is het eerste boek over de geschiedenis van de Universiteit Leiden sinds 1875. Vanuit zijn vakgebied, universiteitsgeschiedenis, gaat Willem Otterspeer in op de ruim 200 jaar intense historie. Van oudsher is het een instelling die het midden tussen uitersten zoekt en belichaamde daarin het poldermodel vele eeuwen avant la lettre. Het is een betrokken geschiedenis, geschreven door iemand die van zijn instelling houdt, maar tegelijkertijd professionele afstand weet te houden en ironie niet schuwt. Ook leverbaar in het Nederlands: Het bolwerk van de vrijheid "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_book&isbn=9789087280246">ISBN 978 90 8728 024 6
             
            URI
            https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/175956
            Keywords
            geschiedenis; history; geography; auxiliary disciplines; Leiden; Leiden University; Netherlands; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
            DOI
            10.24415/9789087280307
            ISBN
            9789087280307
            Publisher
            Leiden University Press
            Publisher website
            www.lup.nl
            Publication date and place
            2008
            Series
            LUP Academic,
            Pages
            312
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