Marx in Marburg
In zwei hessischen Universitätsstädten bildeten sich nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg Schulen heraus, die einen prägenden Einfluss auf die linke Debatte in der Bundesrepublik nehmen sol…
Archiv für April 2015
Dilema veche | 572-584 (2015)
Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/dilemaveche/issue/2015-04-30.html
Chronik des Monats März 2015
1.3. – Ägypten. Die für den 21. d. M. geplanten Wahlen werden verschoben, das Verfassungsgericht hatte die Bestimmungen über die Einteilung der Wahlkreise außer Kraft gesetzt. Die von Präsident al-Sisi geführten Militärs regieren seit Juni 2012 ohne Parlament.
Abstracts
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Science, freedom and competition. The influence of the German academic model in Liberal Italy
Francesco MarinThis article deals with the perception of the German academic model in 19th and early 20th century Italy. The high popularity of the model up to the first world war was based upon a selective perception of its constituent parts: the free…
The Catholic Religion and the Italian Communist Party
Lorenzo EttorreThe article analyses the attention and the interest the Italian Communist Party showed towards the Catholic religion, from 1944 to 1954. The considered diachronic development – intentionally widened to a ten years period – enabled an ove…
Myth and reality from overseas. Italy and the American academic model in the twentieth century
Andrea Mariuzzo
For almost a century several critics of Italian university system have been looking at the United States, the emerging world-leading model in higher education policies, as an ideal point of reference for substantial reforms based on decentralization, deregulation, and „meritocracy“. The essay clarifies some aspects concerning the origins and the development of such image of American university model in Italy. It starts from some significant moments of intervention in Italy of American agencies of cultural diplomacy for the establishment of mutual exchanges, such as the first U.S.-funded programs of international mobility of young scholars between the two Wars and the missions of American advisers for the education reforms in the 1960’s. It shows that, though following American stimuli, in Italian debates the example of U.S. universities acquired different meanings according to the contexts and the political objectives of its advocates.
The „principle of our university public law“. Encyclopaedic items on Italian University in the early twentieth century
Mauro MorettiThis article examines some legal and pedagogical encyclopaedic items. The items were published in the early years of the twentieth century, and they were devoted to Italian university. This coherent corpus of texts highlights the general c…
U.S. Higher Education Finance: Decentralization and Diversity
William Zumeta
This article surveys the history of U.S. higher education finance with an emphasis on the post-World War II period and particularly developments in recent decades. The U.S. system’s constitutionally based delegation of responsibility for education to the states ensures great diversity across fifty states in a large country and this is described, along with the variables associated with key state differences. The article also examines recent developments, including the general reduction in state budgetary support for institutions, the shift in state support toward student grants relative to institutional support, and the rise of the performance accountability movement tied to state funding. American governments are seeking more than ever from higher education while providing lower levels of financial support.
Civil religion and political religion in Barack Obama: continuity, innovation, realism and rhetoric
Gianluca Scroccu
The article considers how Barack Obama has utilised civil religion in his political career since the election to the White House, with particular attention to his religious formation. Through exploration of Obama’s writings and speeches, the paper analyze how in the political debate, and especially in his reflections on the dilemmas and contradictions of international relations, Obama has used religion to assert and claim a midline approach of government. It focuses on the influence of his political theology by Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright and the black church, white liberal Protestantism, his mother Ann Dunham’s skepticism, the pragmatism and the Niebuhr’s work. One aim of this paper is to underline how the religious impulse, in the Obama’s political views, has become consistent with the ethics of a pluralistic democracy. But these innovative, inclusive and national vision did not obtain all of his objectives, especially in the second presidential term because of international instability and the weakening of its leadership.