Essays in the Phenomenology of Learning: The Challenge of Proximity

ISBN-13: 9781032245744 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Fiachra Long

Opis

This book explores the phenomenology of learning with particular focus on the ‘closeness’ or ‘proximity’ of the knowledge that impacts on learners, young and old.

Spis treści

Part 1: Approaches to proximity. 1. Socrates and the proximity of ‘address’. 2. Phenomenology as a proximity of learning. Part 2: Phenomenological perspectives. 3. Husserl and the proximity of ‘encounter’. 4. Heidegger and the proximity of ‘care’. 5. Boredom and the proximity of ‘risk’ (Heidegger). 6. Merleau-Ponty and the proximity of ‘body’. 7. Foucault and the proximity of ‘words’. Part 3: Fundamental proximity. 8. Winnicott and the proximity of ‘omnipotence’. 9. Honneth and the proximity of ‘recognition’. Conclusion.

O autorze

Fiachra Long is retired Senior Lecturer in Education at University College Cork.