Learning from the other : Levinas, psychoanalysis, and ethical possibilities in education / Sharon Todd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todd, Sharon, 1962-

Series:

SUNY series, second thoughts

SUNY series, Second Thoughts: New Theoretical Formations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel--Views on education.

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Education--Moral and ethical aspects.

Education.

Intersubjectivity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Learning from the Other presents a philosophical investigation into the ethical possibilities of education, especially social justice education. In this original treatment, Sharon Todd rethinks the ethical basis of responsibility as emerging out of the everyday and complex ways we engage difference within educational settings. She works through the implications of the productive tension between the thought of Emmanuel Levinas and that of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Judith Butler, Cornelius Castoriadis, and others. Challenging the idea that knowledge about the other is the answer to questions of responsibility, she proposes that responsibility is rooted instead in a learning from the other. The author focuses on empathy, love, guilt, and listening to highlight the complex nature of learning from difference and to probe where the conditions for ethical possibility might lie.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Learning from the Other: A Question of Ethics, a Question for Education

“Bringing more than I Contain”: On Ethics, Curriculum, and Learning to Become

Being-for or Feeling-for? Empathic Demands and Disruptions

A Risky Commitment: The Ambiguity and Ambivalence of Love

Strangely Innocent? Guilt, Suffering, and Responsibility

Listening as an Attentiveness to “Dense Plots”

Where are Ethical Possibilities?

Notes

Bibliography

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-171) and index.

ISBN:

9780791486290

079148629X

9781417500932

141750093X

OCLC:

61367835