Peter Josephson, Ph.D., is researcher at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University. He has published monographs, text books and articles on the history of universities and higher education.Thomas Karlsohn. Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University. He has published monographs, translations and articles on the history of universities, education and philosophy.Johan Östling, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at Lund University and Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) in Uppsala. He is currently writing a book about the idea of the university in modern Germany.

Gert Schubring, in Isis, Volume 107, Number 2, June 2016, p. 414-415.

• ContentsAbout the Authors viiIntroduction: The Humboldtian Traditionand Its Transformations 1Peter Josephson, Thomas Karlsohn and Johan ÖstlingPART 1Historical Origins1 The Publication Mill: The Beginnings of Publication Historyas an Academic Merit in German Universities, 1750–1810 23Peter Josephson2 On Humboldtian and Contemporary Notionsof The Academic Lecture 44Thomas Karlsohn3 It Takes a Real Man to Show True Femininity: Gender Transgressionin Goethe’s and Humboldt’s Concept of Bildung 58Claudia LindénPART 2Transformations of a Tradition4 Humboldt the Undead: Multiple Uses of ‘Humboldt’and his ‘Death’ in The ‘Bologna’ Era 81Mitchell G. Ash5 ‘Humboldt’ in Belgium: Rhetoric on the GermanUniversity Model 97Pieter Dhondt6 The Regeneration of the University: Karl Jaspers and the HumboldtianTradition in the Wake of the Second World War 111Johan Östling7 When Humboldt Met Marx: The 1970s Leftist Student Movementand the Idea of the University in Finland 127Marja JalavavicontentsPART 3Contemporary Contentions8 ‘Humboldt’, Humbug! Contemporary Mobilizations of ‘Humboldt’as a Discourse to Support the Corporatization and Marketization ofUniversities and Disparage Alternatives 143Susan Wright9 Philosophy, Freedom, and the Task of the University:Reflections on Humboldt’s Legacy 164Hans Ruin10 Reclaiming Norms: The Value of Normative Structuresfor the University as Workplace and Enterprise 178Ylva Hasselberg11 The Very Idea of Higher Education: Vocation of Man orVocational Training? 191Sharon RiderIndex 213