Ecological University: A Feasible Utopia: A Methodological Analysis

Mahoozi, Reza; Morovat, Ali Asghar

doi:10.30465/crtls.2024.39944.2509

Ecological University: A Feasible Utopia: A Methodological Analysis

Document Type : Research

Authors

Reza Mahoozi ¹

Ali Asghar Morovat ²

¹ Professor of Philosophy, Research Institute of Cultural, Social and Civilization Studies, Tehran, Iran

² Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Art, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran,

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2024.39944.2509

Abstract

“Ecological University: A Feasible Utopia” is a translation of a book by Ronald Barnett, a famous English university philosopher, published in 2018. This book proposes a new idea for future universities based on the method of critical realism on Bhaskar and Habermas's communicative action. Based on critical realism, he has considered several ontological layers for the seven ecosystems in which we humans and societies live and feel their presence in our lives. In his opinion, the university can communicate with the existential layers of all seven ecosystems based on the epistemological diversity within itself and based on the academic principles that make it superior to these seven ecosystems, and establish a homogeneous relationship between them in continuous back-and-forth between them, a relationship that is heterogeneous in the current situation, and this heterogeneity endangers the life of the planet and our ecosystem he has thrown it away. This paper tries to critique and examine the Persian translation of this book in terms of content, methodology, appearance, and the sources used.

Keywords

Ecological University

Ecosystem

Roy Bhaskar

Barnett

Habermas

Subjects

Methodology

Barnett, Ronald (2017), Ecological University: A Feasible Utopia, translated by Sina Bastani and Jabar Rahmani, Publications of the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies.

Barnett, Ronald (2017), Future University: Ideas and Possibilities, translated by Shima Shasti and Shervin Moghimi, Publications of the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies.

Barnett, Ronald (2018), The Idea of Higher Education, translated by Majid Mohammadi Fumani, Ariadakht Qayyomi Bidhandi, Ali Rezaei and Ehsan Akradi, Andisheh Ehsan Publications.

Barnett, Ronald and Roberto Di Napoli (2016), Variable Identities in Higher Education, translated by Sajjad Yahek, Publications of the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies.

Bhaskar, Roy (2013), “critical realism and criticism of the positivism tradition”, in: The Possibility of Naturalism, translated by Reza Mahoozi, in: Etelaate hekmat va Marefat (Information of Wisdom and Knowledge), March, Year 9, no. 5.

Fichte, Yohan Gottlieb (2015), speeches about the mission of a scientist, translated by Esmail Saadat, Farhang Javid Publications.

Fichte, Y. G. (1979), Addresses to the German Nation, Trans. by R. F. Jones and G. H. Turnbull, Westport: Greenwood press.

Habermas, Jürgen (1400), Cognition and Human Interests, translated by Naseruddin Ali Taghavian, Publications of the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies.

Jaspers, Karl (2014), The Idea of the University, translated by Mehdi Parsa and Mehrdad Parsa, Phoenix Publications.

Kant, Immanuel (2019 A), Conflict of Faculties, translated by Sayed Masoumeh Mousavi, Shabkhiz Publications.

Kant, Immanuel (2018), The Conflict of Faculties, translated by Reza Mahoozi, Publications of the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies.

Mahoozi, Reza (2017), from a national university to a university for dialogue, in the question of Iranian universities, with the efforts of Jabar Rahmani, Publications of the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies.

Mahoozi, Reza (2018), “Kant and the service of philosophy to the future of the university”, in: the book Philosophy of University; Reflections on universities in the world and Iran, Reza Mahoozi (ed.), Publications of the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies.

Mahoozi, Reza (2018), philosophy of university; Reflections on Universities in the World and Iran, Publications of the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies.

Newman, John Henry (2015), The Idea of a University, translated by Irfan Badkobeh, in Sefidkhosh, Maysham, The Idea of a University, Hekmat Publications.

Samim, Reza (2015), “Questioning the university in the German intellectual tradition; Transition from a philosophical question to a sociological question”, in: University: Theoretical Reflections and Iranian Experience, Mahoozi, Reza, Publications of the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies.

Sefidkhosh, Maytham (2015), University idea, selection and editing, Hekmat Publications.

Verjee, Jak (2017), Universities in the Middle Ages, translated by Amir Rezaei, Publications of the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies.

Wittrak, Bjorn (2016), The Development Course of the Modern University, translated by Aria Matin, Publications of the Institute for Social and Cultural Studies.