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The University (1968)
Volume 34. Argo, 1996.
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...To agree on the future is the condition for having peace in the past. Now nobody in this country seems to agree on the future. And therefore, the future of the United States is shrouded in darkness and ambiguity. I’m now serious. I’m not joking.
The world of the universities has detached itself from the human future. And in this detachment, or in this abandonment into its own purposes, and its own exams, and degrees, and emoluments, and foundations, and laboratories, it may have lost the right to call itself a "university."
February 15, 1968
Here Rosenstock-Huessy summarizes his "dis-ease" with the modern university. He sees its present emphasis on "knowledge for its own sake" as having rendered the university impotent because it does not deal with each subject in the context of its contribution toward creating a future for the community. In some detail he lays out what it should be if it is to serve this crucial purpose. One 1-hour lecture.
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