Nietzsche and the question of the University
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https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.16192Keywords:
University, education, scholar, Goethe, science, BildungAbstract
The complexity of Nietzsche's relationship with the University has been underestimated until now. As a critic of modernity, Nietzsche addresses directly the question of how 19th-century academic institutions functioned, particularly regarding their aims and objectives. Nietzsche was part of a long tradition of satire concerning educational institutions, a leading figure of which was Goethe's Faust I. Nietzsche continued this criticism and took it to its ultimate conclusion, while also suggesting paths towards a different relationship with knowledge and new forms of education, and sketching out the contours of a new kind of university. Nietzsche pursued this critique and took it to its ultimate conclusion, while also identifying avenues for a different relationship with knowledge.
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