A HUMANISTIC HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAMME

This article proposes a concrete educational programme ‐ based on the reappropriation of the German humanistic conception of the modern university ‐ for a reunification of the “two cultures”, humanistic and scientific, within the framework of the postmodern university. The first step will be to clarify the demise of the cultural and educational role of postmodern universities (first section); secondly, to present the humanistic conception of the university, implemented at the University of Berlin established by von Humboldt at the beginning of the nineteenth century, as both a desirable and possible conceptual foundation for the revitalization of the cultural role of the university (second section); thirdly, to delineate a concrete educational programme based on a reappropriation of the humanistic conception (third section); and finally, in a short section (the fourth), to describe two specific characteristics of the suggested programme.