Open AccessRequiem for Humboldt: Bildung and zeitgeist
Author(s) -
Predrag Krstić
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-081X
pISSN - 0351-2274
DOI - 10.2298/theo2101091k
Subject(s) - bildung , abandonment (legal) , zeitgeist , sociology , realization (probability) , epistemology , betrayal , focus (optics) , education theory , pedagogy , philosophy , psychology , political science , social psychology , higher education , law , statistics , physics , mathematics , optics
The paper is dedicated to Humboldt ?s understanding of the concept of Bildung and its reception to this day. In the triangle of Humboldt?s ?Theory of Human Education? and his later writings, Adorno?s ?Theory of Half-Education? and Liessmann?s ?Theory of Non-Education?, the fate of not only discursive changes in the focus of that educational vision is followed, but also the efforts of its practical implementation, betrayal and rejection. After the contextually situating Humboldt?s endeavor, the basic ideas of his comprehension of education and his ambiguous efforts to realize them are presented. The second and final part of the paper try to calculate the costs and perspectives of both the realization of Bildung?s ideals and its abandonment.