What is education? It can be defined as an awakening to responsibility toward ourselves in the world with others and it happens by attempting to understand human beings as they develop in life and find their place in the life-world. However, far from simple distribution of knowledge, even at a high level, education is more like writing and reading individual stories of nations and peoples, where every narration carries with itself the unrepeatable traces of life. Welcoming the ideas in the authentic experience of the hermeneutics of sympathy and suspicion, the book gives witness to this epiphany. In bringing to light the different aspects of educational (dis)closures, the authors acknowledge the dialectic of revealing and concealing as well as delight in the flow of the thinking process. This book shall open up horizons of thinking together on education by (dis)closing something essential about humans as unfinished projects.

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Front Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
The Event-like Phenomenality of Educational (Dis)closures: Learning toward Understanding
Part I. Openings and Possibilities: Subjects of Learning
1 The Truth of the Educational Event: Heidegger’s (Plato’s) Cave and the Hermeneutics of (Dis)closure
2 Education and Freedom
3 Layers of Identity: Philosophical Perspectives on Subjectivity and Personality
4 Subject as a Patient and a Foundling: The Enigmatic Core of Education
Between the Genealogy of the Subject, Identity, and Care for the Other: (Post)Lacanian Contexts of Contemporary Humanities
6 The Leap from Authenticity to Solicitude: Heidegger’s Poetry of Education as Letting
Part II. Following the Traces: On Love, Care, and Desire
7 Hermeneutics, Love, and Education: Reading Gadamer, Nietzsche, and Illich
8 St. Augustine on Desire, Education, and Knowledge
9 Augustine as Educator
10 Jan Patočka as Educator
11 The Beauty of Education
12 Aquinas as Hermeneutic Teacher: The Authority of a Teacher and the Authority of a Friend
Part III. The Places of Learning
13 Dwelling, Language, and the Schoolhouse: Interpreting Building in the Context of Education
14 You Can’t Get There from Here: The Flaw in Humboldt’s Dream of a Liberal Arts Research University
15 Reimagining the Classroom for Disability: On Time, Narrative, and Embodied Difference
16 On Symbolic Challenges for Education and Identities: Locality and (Dis)Placement
Part IV. Thinking Different: On Identity, Politics, and Change
17 Identifications Politics: Toward a Conceptual Framework
18 On the Generous Act of Thinking Dangerously: Notes on Education, Citizenship, and Culture
19 Identity Formation and Conversation in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca
Epilogue: The Happening of Education as an Unfinished Project
Notes on Contributors
Back Cover

2024-11-10