The aim of this book is to show why we should hold 'unlearning' to be a crucial capability in and for education at this point in our history. The author argues that it enables to pose and take seriously the problem of governmentality: How are we governed individually and collectively? Do we wish to be governed in this or that way, to this or that extent, so much, so little, or so badly, under these or those conditions? Or do we wish instead to be self-governed and thereby practice our freedom and be more autonomous, relatively speaking? As such, it puts in question in a...
The aim of this book is to show why we should hold 'unlearning' to be a crucial capability in and for education at this point in ...
The essays included in this collection deal with a wide and diverse range of problems and issues: namely, Cultural Complexity; Globalization; Glocalization; Relativism; Bullshit; Embodied and Situated Cognition; Capabilities Approach; Moral Universalism; Solidarity; Cosmopolitanism; Pluralism; Human Rights; Justice; and "Philosophy" after the end of Philosophy. This work takes its main title from the last essay, in which the author makes an effort to rethink the nature and purpose of "philosophy" for the present day, sketching a proposal for a new beginning for philosophy as "critical...
The essays included in this collection deal with a wide and diverse range of problems and issues: namely, Cultural Complexity; Globalization; Glocaliz...
