Sergey Zuev about academic freedom

The discussion about the fate of academic institutions in the modern world concerns not only issues of science and education, but also the change of elites and the gap of generations, freedom and critical thinking.

In the book "University. The keeper is ideal. Unconducted essays written in solitude ”written in a prison cell, Sergey Zuev reflects on the utopian project of an ideal university. What is its ontological basis? What traditional concepts need to be reviewed in today's conversation about the university? How does this project correlate with relevant social reality?

Sergey Eduardovich Zuev - rector of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (MVSHSEN, Shaninka), professor, candidate of art history. The book simultaneously summarizes the author’s experience as chief administrator of one of the best universities in the country and marks the space of problems and prospects of academic transformations.

Polit.ru publishes the section of the book entitled "Academic Freedom as an Institute."

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