The Idea of the University

work by Jaspers
Also known as: “Die Idee der Universität”

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  • Karl Jaspers
    In Karl Jaspers: Postwar development of thought

    Die Idee der Universität (1946; The Idea of the University, 1959). He called for a complete de-Nazification of the teaching staff, but this proved to be impossible because the number of professors who had never compromised with the Nazis was too small. It was only gradually that the autonomous university…

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