The Perlmann crisis of the academic world

dc.contributor.authorŠedíková Čuhová, Paulína
dc.contributor.authorKubealaková, Martina
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-11T12:10:10Z
dc.date.available2025-06-11T12:10:10Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionIn: Discover Applied Sciences. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2025. ISSN 3004-9261. Vol. 7, no. 5 (2025), pp. 1-21.
dc.description.abstractThe article discusses the crisis of academia depicted in the novel Perlmanns Schweigen by Pascal Mercier (1995; Eng. trans. Perlmann’s Silence, 2012). It also examines the question of the novel’s genre classification. Perlmann’s burnout is represented by a web of motifs – such as losing one’s sense of purpose in regard to teaching and research work, competitive struggles such as popularity contests and number of publications, the inaccessible nature of the humanities, the commercialization of research, the contradiction between the philosophy of science and the practice of research work. We consider these to be distinctive because in the 1990s the repeating motifs unmasked the internal decay of the academic tradition along with the identity of the academic teacher or professor. It showed how the academic environment reacts to new trends in university education by distorting academic values and scientific research. In effect, this problem emerged because quality was exchanged for quantity, scientific respectability for social prestige and popularity. Thus the motifs are specifically concerned with the decline caused by the capitalization of academia, research work, and the subsequent thinking of teachers within the profession.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2025.17.1.9
dc.identifier.issn1337-9275
dc.identifier.issn1337-9690
dc.identifier.urihttps://repo.umb.sk/handle/123456789/583
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Nature Switzerland AG : Cham
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0. International
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectuniverzitný román
dc.subjectcampus novel
dc.subjectakademické romány
dc.subjectacademic novels
dc.titleThe Perlmann crisis of the academic world
dc.typeArticle
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article

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