Science, freedom and competition. The influence of the German academic model in Liberal Italy
Journal title MEMORIA E RICERCA
Author/s Francesco Marin
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2015/48
Language Italian Pages 18 P. 85-102 File size 111 KB
DOI 10.3280/MER2015-048006
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This article deals with the perception of the German academic model in 19th and early 20th century Italy. The high popularity of the model up to the first world war was based upon a selective perception of its constituent parts: the freedom of teaching and learning, the idealized role of the Privatdozent, the competition in and among the universities, the prevalence of scientific aims over educational ones. The debate in the press, in parliament, university journals and the academic world shows that the German model, altough generally well known, was often exploited. In fact, even if many authors warned of superficial comparisons and the difficulty of an application to the Italian situation, the model supplied arguments for nearly each participant in the Italian university reform debate since the middle of the 19th century.
Keywords: Germany, science, model, perception, Italy, university.
Francesco Marin, Scienza, libertà e concorrenza. La fortuna del modello accademico tedesco nell’Italia liberale in "MEMORIA E RICERCA " 48/2015, pp 85-102, DOI: 10.3280/MER2015-048006