Współczesny Uniwersytet wobec dynamiki i redefinicji tożsamości

Abstract

The author points to some challenges of the modern university in the context of long-standing rules of academic life (such as freedom of thought, openness to new ideas, and devotion to earnest study). He draws attention to the problem of politicization of the contemporary university, the changes of principles and values of academic life, and the redefinition of individual and institutional identity. In this context, the author formulates numerous problems that the modern university should cope with. He points out that the essence of the modern university is to create a paradigm of coexistence, a culture of peace, and development of an internal identity aimed at acquiring the awareness of otherness. It is believed that within the sphere of the university divergent thinking and parrhesia are always worth being developed. Moreover, the university should be viewed as a place where cultural differences are noticed, and where hybrid identities are promoted in the context of transcultural and transnational science.