Pedagogika Szkoły Wyższej

In the article I analyze an issue of university autonomy from a philosophical perspective. I indicate that the issue is ambiguous at the level of the very idea that inevitably entails difficulties and complication at the level of practicing it. I prove that in this era when science has been transformed into technoscience, when the public domain has been panpoliticized probably in all its fields and areas, when universities have been passively succumbed to corporatization pressure and quite frequently also to a pressure of econo-thinking, in such circumstances the university autonomy is actually reflected basically in the sphere of ideas, pious hopes, festive declarations – yes, pleasing to the ear, but rather just for the humanistic-social one, if any, however not for everyone. Radicalization of this thesis, I think, entitles to a conclusion that university full autonomy in fact is possible only just as an idea. The complete university autonomy – regardless of epoch – is unrealizable or alternatively it might be actualized only if universities could become relatively closed systems isolated from environment, infrastructure as well as influences, interactions and correlations of the social, political, economic, cultural, philosophical, ethical and religious nature – both on local, regional, and global scale.