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: 9780742508873
• ISBN10: 0742508870
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-31
• 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	p. vii
Introduction: Heidegger, Education, and Modernity	p. 1
Heidegger on the Art of Teaching	p. 27
Truth, Science, Thinking, and Distress	p. 47
Martin Heidegger, Transcendence, and the Possibility of Counter-Education	p. 65
The Origin: Education, Philosophy, and a Work of Art	p. 81
Comfortably Numb in the Digital Era: Man's Being as Standing-Reserve or Dwelling Silently	p. 103
Heidegger on Ontological Education, or How We Become What We Are	p. 123
Essential Heidegger: Poetics of the Unsaid	p. 151
Enframing Education	p. 171
Heidegger and Nietzsche: Nihilism and the Question of Value in Relation to Education	p. 191
Learning as Leavetaking and Homecoming	p. 211
Education as a Form of the Poetic: A Heideggerian Approach to Learning and the Teacher-Pupil Relationship	p. 229
Index	p. 245
About the Contributors	p. 255
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