Tired of Science?! Notes on the Relationship between University and Society

1. Dilemmas of Science: Tensions between University and Society The German philosopher Hans Blumenberg formulated this over thirty years ago: “The great enigma of the closing second millennium is and will perhaps remain the growing aversion to science.”1 Regardless of the time-related motivation and conditionality of his statement, Blumenberg draws our attention to dilemmas that are fundamentally formative for science due to the way they are linked. These are dilemmas that have not lost their significance since then but rather have increased in importance over the last decade.