Walter Benjamin's antifascist education : from riddles to radio / Tyson E. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Tyson E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Educational sociology.

Fascism and education.

Democracy and education.

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.

Benjamin, Walter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education is the first comprehensive analysis of educational themes across the entirety of the critical theorist's diverse writings. Starting with Benjamin's early reflections on teaching and learning, Tyson E. Lewis argues that the aesthetic and cultural forms to which Benjamin so often turned-namely, radio broadcasts, children's theatrical productions, collections, cityscapes, public cinemas, and word games-swell with educational potentialities. What emerges from Lewis's reading is a constellational curriculum composed of minor practices such as poor teaching, absentminded learning, and nondurational studying. This curriculum carries political significance, offering an antidote to past and present forms of fascist manipulation, hardness, and coldness. Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education is a testimony to Benjamin's belief that "everyone is an educator and everyone needs to be educated and everything is education.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Constellation of Educational Forms

Part I

Instruction

Radio Broadcasts

Children’s Theater

Part II

Collections

Cityscapes

Cinema

Riddles

Education as Potentializability

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438477534

1438477538