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Kantorowicz's Oaths: A Californian Moment in the History of Academic Freedom
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 4479334
Author(s) Wimmer, Mario
Author(s) at UniBasel Wimmer, Mario
Year 2014
Title Kantorowicz's Oaths: A Californian Moment in the History of Academic Freedom
Journal Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
Volume 25
Number 3
Pages / Article-Number 116-147
Abstract This essay is about Ernst Kantorowicz’s stance on the anti-communist Loyalty Oath controversy at the University of California in the early years of the Cold War. Kantorowicz, who just had escaped Nazi Germany, found himself caught up in a fight between a group of so-called non-signers and the Regents of the University who tried to enforce a political oath on all faculty. In his pamphlet about the controversy Kantorowicz turned this moment of university politics into a meditation on the “fundamental issues” of academic freedom, the very character of the public office of the university professor, and the character of the university as legal corporation, which resembled his notion of a Secret Germany and anticipated aspects of his The King’s Two Bodies. After a close-reading of Kantorowicz’ pamphlet in which I analyze his understanding of the university as an idealized Arcadia of scholarship and a mythistorical reiteration of the medieval universitas magistrorum et scholarium, I finally turn to the afterlife of the Loyalty Oath controversy and its implications for our understanding of academic freedom.
Publisher Studienverlag
ISSN/ISBN 1016-765X
edoc-URL https://edoc.unibas.ch/64073/
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