Some Ideas on historical Time and the question of University

FRANCISCO NAISHTAT

Reykjavik

Workshop; THE UNIVERSITY AND THE FUTURE; 2005

Universidad de Islandia y Bolonia Observatory for Fundamental University Values and Rights

We can assign three typical transformations of the modern university from 1800 to the present day: the university of the Bildung, the university of the scientific specialisations and what we shall here call the university of the hybridisation. When we here speak of university in the singular form, we do not intent to reduce the fundamental diversity inherent of the different universities, both in their traditions and in respective models as in their level of scientific and academic development. Instead, we try to outline some typical features of the general university evolution in the last two hundred years, seen from a global perspective. Only in a second part will we specifically refer to Latin American universities and to the Argentine university in particular.