Hannah Arendt and education : renewing our common world / [edited by] Mordechai Gordon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordon, Mordechai.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Arendt, Hannah.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Physical Description:

xi, 274 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001.

Summary:

Renewing Our Common World is the first book to bring together a collection of essays on Hannah Arendt and education. The contributors contend that Arendt offers a unique perspective, one which enhances the liberal and critical traditions' call for transforming education so that it can foster the values of democratic citizenship and social justice. They focus on a wide array of Arendtian concepts -- such as natality, action, freedom, public space, authority and judgment -- which are particularly relevant for education in a democratic society. Teachers, educators, and citizens in general who are interested in democratic or civic education would benefit from reading this book.

Contents:

1 The Paradox of Natality: Teaching in the Midst of Belatedness / Natasha Levinson 11

2 Hannah Arendt on Authority: Conservatism in Education Reconsidered / Mordechai Gordon 37

3 Education for Judgment: An Arendtian Oxymoron? / Stacy Smith 67

4 Contesting Utopianism: Hannah Arendt and the Tensions of Democratic Education / Aaron Schutz 93

5 Multicultural Education and Arendtian Conservatism: On Memory, Historical Injury, and Our Sense of the Common / Kimberley Curtis 127

6 Is Hannah Arendt a Multiculturalist? / Ann Lane 153

7 Hannah Arendt on Politicizing the University and Other Cliches / Peter Euben 175

8 The Eclipse of Thinking: An Arendtian Critique of Cooperative Learning / Eduardo Duarte 201

9 What and How We Learned from Hannah Arendt: An Exchange of Letters / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Jerome Kohn 225.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813366321

0813339642

OCLC:

47965516