Philosophy as Translation and the Understanding of Other Cultures

ISBN-13: 9781138542556 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 134 str.

Naomi Hodgson; Naoko Saito

Opis

The 2016 Conference of the International Network of Philosophers of Education sought to address such concerns through the theme ‘Philosophy as translation and the understanding of other cultures’. This book addresses questions of ethics, desire, religious understanding, intercultural philosophy, and practices of higher education and teacher education raised at this conference. It was originally published as a special issue of Ethics & Education.

Spis treści

Introduction: philosophy as translation and the understanding of other cultures   Acknowledgment   1. Better late than never: understanding Chinese philosophy and ‘translating it’ into the western academy  2. Translation on its own terms? Toward education for global culture  3. Inclusive education and Barrierefreiheit: some social-epistemological considerations  4. The difficult pursuit of truth: a response to Kai Horsthemke   5. Love and social justice in learning for sustainability   6. Beyond theory and practice: towards an ethics of translation   7. Translating desire (and frustration)   8. The hermeneutics of religious understanding in a postsecular age   9. The ‘religion of the child’: Korczak’s road to radical humanism   10. Intercultural philosophy and education in a global society: philosophical divides are dotted lines   11. Refusal and disowning knowledge: re-thinking disengagement in higher education12. Is moral philosophy an educationally worthwhile activity? Toward a liberal democratic theory of teacher education

O autorze

Naomi Hodgson is Lecturer in Education Studies at Liverpool Hope University, UK, specialising in educational philosophy. Her current research focuses on the role of digital technologies in reframing the parent-child relationship. Her publications include Philosophy and Theory in Education: Writing in the Margin, with Dr Amanda Fulford (Routledge, 2016).

Naoko Saito is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Japan. Her area of research is American philosophy and pragmatism and their implications for education. She is the author of　The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson　(2005) and America Tetsugaku no Yoake (The Dawning of American Philosophy) (2018, Japanese), and co-editor (with Paul Standish) of Education and the Kyoto School of Philosophy (2012), Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups (2012), and Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation: The Truth is Translated (2017).