Educating Humanity Bildung in Postmodernity

by Lovlie, Lars; Mortensen, Klaus Peter; Nordenbo, Sven Erik

• ISBN13: 9781405106276
• ISBN10: 1405106271
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-02
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

During the past decade there has been renewed interest in the German idea of Bildung. This collection of newly written essays asks how this classical idea of an education of the self - as proposed by neo-humanists such as Schiller, Von Humboldt and Hegel - can make sense of the education of humanity in the information age. Timely re-examination of the tradition of Bildung in the context of postmodernity. Asks how the classical idea of an education of the self can make sense of the education of humanity in the information age. Considers the idea of a dynamic transformation extending through culture and politics. Plays a crucial part in the developing theory and practice of education.

Author Biography

Lars Løvlie is a Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Klaus Peter Mortensen works at the Pedagogical University, Denmark.

Sven-Erik Nordenbo is based at Copenhagan University, Denmark.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction: Bildung and the idea of a liberal education	1	(24)
Lars Lovlie
Paul Standish
Bildung and the Thinking of Bildung	25	(12)
Sven Erik Nordenbo
The Idea of a Universal Theory of Education---an Impossible but Necessary Project?	37	(24)
Michael Uljens
How General Can Bildung Be? Reflections on the Future of a Modern Educational Ideal	61	(14)
Gert Biesta
Bildung and Critical Theory in the Face of Postmodern Education	75	(18)
Ilan Gur-Ze'ev
On Irritation and Transformation: A-teleological Bildung and its Significance for the Democratic Form of Living	93	(12)
Roland Reichenbach
Beyond the Present State of Affairs: Bildung and the Search for Orientation in Rapidly Transforming Societies	105	(16)
Helmut Peukert
The Double Call: on Bildung in a Literary and Reflective Perspective	121	(20)
Klaus Peter Mortensen
Modernising Media or Modernist Medium? The Struggle for Liberal Learning in Our Information Age	141	(10)
Rene V. Arcilla
The Promise of Bildung	151	(20)
Lars Løvlie
Illusion --- How Friedrich Schiller Can Cast Light on Bildung	171	(16)
Hansjorg Hohr
Bibliography	187	(10)
Index	197