The university of the outside … The truly open university …
W. wants to discover the opposite of Britain within Britain, he says.
He thinks of Rosenzweig’s Lehrhaus, and Rosenstock’s Camp William James. He dreams of Arendt, Strauss and the University in Exile …
They didn’t go far enough, W. says. Mind you, none of them were British. They didn’t understand how far they had to go … And isn’t it of that that W. dreams of now: of a university set up by those who knew how far they would have to go? How far from Britain they would have to go, W. says. How far from Oxford, from the old order, W. says. And how far from the Beast, from the new order, W. says.
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