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9780415135986

The End of Knowing: A New Developmental Way of Learning

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415135986

  • ISBN10:

    0415135982

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-08-12
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

How do we reconstruct our world when modernist ideas have been refuted and many social problems appear unsolvable? Fred Newman and Lois Holzman offer the alternative of "performed activity"--a non-academic way forward to develop and add meaning to our lives. The authors believe that it is through participation in cultural, educational and psychological projects that one can achieve personal enrichment. These projects and ideas have been formulated from 25 years of practice in the authors' own "anti-institution," a development community free of political and academic affiliations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
1 Introduction: when will all these endings stop?
1(21)
Engaging reality
7(3)
Stop making sense
10(4)
Academics in an anti-institution
14(8)
2 The epistemological bias
22(25)
Ontology vs. epistemology
24(2)
The paradigm of paradigmism
26(5)
But can we really get beyond modernism (that is, knowing)?
31(4)
It's all the sameness to us
35(4)
The charge of relativism
39(8)
3 Radically reforming modern epistemology
47(36)
Discourse, text, conversation--and analysis
49(14)
Moving beyond the rational (both the explanatory and the interpretive variety)
63(10)
Developing development
73(3)
What is the practice of method?
76(7)
4 Deliberately unsystematic thoughts on a new way of running a country
83(22)
A moment of truth?
85(3)
A brief history of liberty
88(2)
The collapse of contemporary liberalism (identity politics)
90(6)
A word on Marxism--neo- and otherwise
96(3)
The politics of activity
99(6)
5 A community of conversations
105(60)
The performance of conversation: a theoretical comment
105(9)
How to make a performed conversation
114(2)
Performed emotive conversations
116(10)
The improvisational performance of developmental learning
126(12)
The performance of philosophy
138(19)
The learning-leading-development play
157(1)
"Beyond the Pale"
158(5)
The endings stop here
163(2)
Notes 165(5)
Bibliography 170(8)
Index 178

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