invitation

[Andrea Peto]

THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY

PROGRAM ON GENDER & CULTURE

Presents a Public Lecture by

Marek Kwiek
Department of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland


The Identity Crisis of the Modern Institution of the University - from a Philosophical Perspective

5:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 29, 2000
Gellner Room

Dr. Marek Kwiek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland and currently he is teaching a course at the Program on Gender & Culture. His research interests include transformations of the modern institution of the university, globalization and higher education, modernity vs. postmodernity, contemporary American neopragmatism, postmodern Continental philosophy of culture, relations between philosophy, ethics and politics, intellectuals as cultural heroes of modernity. Monographs: In the Labyrinths of Postmodernity (1994), Elective Affinities. The New Pragmatism and Postmodern Thought (1996, in English), Michel Foucault Today (ed., 1998), and Dilemmas of Identity. On the Self-Image of the Philosopher in Post-War French Thought (1999).

Reception to follow

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