Lalu, Premesh2021-04-072021-04-072020Lalu, P. (2020). The enchantment of freedom at University of the Western Cape. Signals,(1) ,https://www.uwc.ac.za/https://hdl.handle.net/10566/5993The history of the modern university is ,first and foremost ,the history of the unfolding of complex problematics of a planetary condition through established scientific and humanistic inquiry. Defined as such, the work of the university is not only to advance solutions for those problems that interchangeably favour state and public use of reason but also to discover, in the framing of the problem, the very conditions for constructing perspectives about a future that is radically other. In this sense, the demand placed on the university is always doubled, so that its interpretive, analytical, and critical work cuts into the non-identity of past and future. To this extent, the ideals of higher education mimic the processes of research and define the relationship established between the professoriate, the student body, and the university�s allied publics. The scientific revolutionsenFreedomUniversity of the Western CapeHigher educationHumanistic traditionsApartheid educational policyArticle