Academic Life

Zbigniew Drozdowicz is a retired professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University. He specialises in the field of modern French philosophy and religious studies, practiced from a secular position. He focuses on the analysis of Christianity undergoing various transformations. He has authored about 500, including over 40 scientific monographs.

• World-class and provincialism in science - The limits of academic freedoms - Creating academic greats - Academic masters and teachers - Schools in science - Celebrities, celebrants and halberdiers - Academic climes - Politicization of universities - Enthusiasm in science - Speculativism in science - Quasi-scientific assumptions and beliefs - Agnosticism of scholars - Imitating philosophers - Voltaireanism in academic life - Teamwork or solo? - Leaders and stragglers in science - Academic innovations - Academic weigh-ins of the professor and the student - Academic decency - The Temptation of the Scholar - The profane in academic life - Academic opinion-giving - Academic expertosis - Academic habits - Academic seriousness - Academic jokes - Academic courage - The zones of shouting and silence - Student resourcefulness - Academic aging - The recipe for academic success - Academic bureaucracy - The Power of Autobiography and Biography - Academic publicism