Education and the Limits of Reason: Reading Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Nabokov

ISBN-13: 9780367178581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 176 str.

Peter Roberts; Herner Saeverot

Opis

Education and the Limits of Reason extends the critical conversation about nature and reason, arguing that in seeking to investigate the meaning and significance of reason in human lives, sources other than non-fiction educational or philosophical texts can be helpful.

Spis treści

Introduction: Education and the Limits of Reason  1. Troubling Reason: Notes from Underground Revisited  2. Love, Attention and Teaching: The Brothers Karamazov  3. Passion as a Quality of Education: The Death of Ivan Ilyich  4. Education, Rationality and the Meaning of Life: Tolstoy’s Confession  5. Pedagogy of the Gaze: An Educational Reading of Lolita  6. Education Arrayed in Time: Nabokov and the Problem of Time and Space  Conclusion: Literature, Philosophy and Education  References  Credits