Article ID: CBB492296080

University of Utrecht 1636–1676: res ecclesia, res publica and … res pecunia (2016)

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The early history of Utrecht University (founded 1636) reflects an emerging public sphere (Habermas’s ‘bürgerliche öffentlichkeit’) of a major town in the Netherlands. This public sphere was a contested field among the different groups establishing and administering the university: university professors, town magistrates and representatives of the newly established Reformed Church and the former dominant Catholic Church. The factionalised magistrates developed a public sphere, while also trying to limit the passionate but destabilising debate concerning the new philosophy of Descartes. They supported the Calvinistic anti-Descartes movement while permitting, and even advocating, the establishment of the new philosophy at the university. They ambivalently protected the academy from the consistory’s control while simultaneously trying to safeguard their own (financial) position. It is concluded that the Habermasian framework has to be fleshed out in local histories, such as this case study of Utrecht University, to demonstrate the ‘messy’ complexities in reality.

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Authors & Contributors
Gellera, Giovanni
Mantovani, Mattia
Taddei, Elena
Strazzoni, Andrea
Schmaltz, Tad M.
Petrescu, Lucian
Concepts
Universities and colleges
Philosophy
Cartesianism
Science and society
Metaphysics
Roman Catholicism
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
19th century
15th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Utrecht (Netherlands)
Netherlands
France
England
Scotland
Institutions
Universiteit Utrecht
Academia Caesareo-Leopoldina Naturae Curiosorum
Royal Society of London
Oxford University
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