Název:	Akademie, politika a akademie jako politika: Ke kritice „rozšířeného“ pojetí akademické svobody
Další názvy:	Academia, Politics, and Academia as Politics: A Critique of the “Extended” Concept of Academic Freedom
Autoři:	Benda, Libor
Citace zdrojového dokumentu:	Acta Fakulty filozofické Západočeské univerzity v Plzni. 2020, č. 2, s. 19-43.
Datum vydání:	2020
Nakladatel:	Západočeská univerzita v Plzni
Typ dokumentu:	článek article
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/11025/42287 https://actaff.zcu.cz/export/sites/ffacta/files/archiv/2020/Acta-FF-c-2/2-Acta-2020-2-Benda.pdf
ISSN:	1805-0364 (print) 2336-6346 (online)
Klíčová slova:	akademická obec;akademická svoboda;akademická profese;akademická odpovědnost;politika
Klíčová slova v dalším jazyce:	academia;academic freedom;academic profession;academic responsibility;politics
Abstrakt v dalším jazyce:	There has been a significant growth of interest in the topic of academic freedom in recent years, predominantly with regard to the emergence of several new and unprecedented phenomena within the academic environment that allegedly threaten or directly undermine academic freedom both on the individual and institutional levels. One of the responses to these observations is the attempt to redefine academic freedom in political terms, since the traditional concept of academic freedom, grounded in the purely epistemological notions of rationality, objectivity, and truth, is becoming regarded as incapable of facing the challenges and overcoming the obstacles encountered by academia in the present circumstances. It has been argued that instead of being limited only to epistemic responsibilities of academics, academic freedom should be “extended” to include the political responsibility of academics as well and should therefore provide the academics first and foremost with an appropriate set of political rights to fulfil their political role. This paper critically examines both the theoretical background behind this political shift in thinking about academic freedom as well as its prospective consequences for the academic profession and academia as a whole. While there are sound theoretical reasons that favour the “extended” version against the traditional concept of academic freedom, I argue that the associated political extension of academic responsibilities blurs the line between academic and political affairs and puts academia in danger of becoming an openly political – rather than authentically academic – institution. The paper is concluded by a tentative suggestion of an alternative account of academic freedom: one that takes seriously the theoretical weaknesses of the traditional version but maintains at the same time a clear and sharp distinction between academic and political matters.
Práva:	© CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Vyskytuje se v kolekcích:	Články / Articles (KFI) Číslo 2 (2020) Číslo 2 (2020)

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