Heidegger, Education, and Modernity

by Peters, Michael A.; Allen, Valerie; Axiotis, Ares D.; Bonnett, Michael; Cooper, David E.; Fitzsimons, Patrick; Gur-Ze'ev, Ilan; Hogan, Padraig; Irwin, F Ruth; Lambeir, Bert; Smeyers, Paul; Standish, Paul; Thomson, Iain

• ISBN13: 9780742508866
• ISBN10: 0742508862
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-06
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Martin Heidegger is, perhaps, the most controversial philosopher of the twentieth-century. Little has been written on him or about his work and its significance for educational thought. This unique collection by a group of international scholars reexamine

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction: Heidegger, Education, and Modernity	1	(26)
Michael A. Peters
Heidegger on the Art of Teaching	27	(20)
Valerie Allen
Ares D. Axiotis
Truth, Science, Thinking, and Distress	47	(18)
David E. Cooper
Martin Heidegger, Transcendence, and the Possibility of Counter-Education	65	(16)
Ilan Gur-Ze'ev
The Origin: Education, Philosophy, and a Work of Art	81	(22)
Paul Smeyers
Comfortably Numb in the Digital Era: Man's Being as Standing-Reserve or Dwelling Silently	103	(20)
Bert Lambeir
Heidegger on Ontological Education, or How We Become What We Are	123	(28)
Iain Thomson
Essential Heidegger: Poetics of the Unsaid	151	(20)
Paul Standish
En framing Education	171	(20)
Patrick Fitzsimons
Heidegger and Nietzsche: Nihilism and the Question of Value in Relation to Education	191	(20)
F. Ruth Irwin
Learning as Leavetaking and Homecoming	211	(18)
Padraig Hogan
Education as a Form of the Poetic: A Heideggerian Approach to Learning and the Teacher-Pupil Relationship	229	(16)
Michael Bonnett
Index	245	(10)
About the Contributors	255