TY - JOUR N2 - The paper presents two competing perceptions of the modern university: the economic and the humanistic. While the economic approach has numerous and potent advocates in the modern, rationalized world, those opting for the humanist approach have to struggle for attention and understanding. The author aims to highlight the conflict between the two seemingly contradictory visions of the university in her sociological commentary about the debate over the importance of the humanities in Poland and worldwide. There exists, however, a kind of ontological meta-frame which allows the rhetoric of a ‘factory of knowledge’ and a ‘temple of knowledge’ to be accommodated. It consists in thinking of universities in universalistic categories, which should be the concern of the state as it seeks Poland’s civilizational advance—in the full meaning of the phrase. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/115919/PDF-MASTER/2014-4-05.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/115919 PY - 2014 IS - No 4 EP - 69 KW - university KW - education KW - the humanities KW - civilization KW - the state A1 - Dziedziczak-Foltyn, Agnieszka PB - Komitet Socjologii PAN PB - Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN DA - 2014 T1 - The Civilizational Obligations of the State and University — Considerations on the Debate over the Role of the Humanities SP - 51 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/115919 T2 - Kultura i Społeczeństwo ER -