Levinas and the Philosophy of Education

ISBN-13: 9780815359593 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 118 str.

Guoping Zhao

Opis

Written by a group of leading, internationally respected scholars in philosophy of education, this book explores the relevance and possibilities of Levinas’ philosophy to educational theory and practice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Spis treści

Introduction: Levinas and the Philosophy of Education  1. Levinas, Durkheim, and the Everyday Ethics of Education  2. Singularity and Community: Levinas and democracy  3. Sound not Light: Levinas and the Elements of Thought  4. The Rediscovery of Teaching: On robot vacuum cleaners, non-egological education and the limits of the hermeneutical world view  5. The Temporal Transcendence of the Teacher as Other  6. Education Incarnate  7. Taking Responsibility into all Matter: Engaging Levinas for the climate of the 21^st Century

O autorze

Guoping Zhao is a Professor at Oklahoma State University, USA, and an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of philosophy of education and comparative philosophy. Her work covers a broad range of topics including the theories of the subject, ethics, spirituality, and democracy.