Alma Mater Carolina Pragensis: Professors on the Idea ofthe University

Abstract

The author analyses selected texts discussing the role of the university. The texts included in Rethinking the University: A Collection of Texts on the Idea of the University with Reference to the Present Time are a collection of papers, most of which were written by professors of Karol University in Prague, discussing different models of the university that have changed over the course of time. Especially great emphasis has been put on problems of renewal of the university in the wake of the fall of communism and the democratisation of social life in the Czech Republic.