Overview

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 reexamines Heidegger's work and its legacy for educational thought. Thematically, the collection focuses on Heidegger's critique of modernity and contributors investigate the central significance for education of Heidegger's ontology and his investigation of the question of the meaning of Being by examining his 'art of teaching' (a translation of his submission to the denazification hearing), his view of science and reason, his philosophy of technology, his poetics, and the implications of his thought for learning. These essays point to the crucial importance of Heidegger's work for understanding modern, highly-technologized forms of education and for the possibilities of redemption from its worst excesses.

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Author:   Michael A. Peters, Professor, University of ,  Valerie Allen ,  Ares D. Axiotis ,  Michael Bonnett
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.349kg
ISBN:  

9780742508873

ISBN 10:   0742508870
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   31 July 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Heidegger, Education and Modernity 2 Heidegger on the Art of Teaching 3 Truth, Science, Thinking and Distress 4 Martin Heidegger, Transcendence, and the Possibility of Counter-Education 5 The Origin Of ... : Education, Philosophy and a Work of Art 6 Comfortably Numb in the Digital Era: Man's Being as Standing-Reserve or Dwelling Silently 7 Heidegger on Ontological Education, or: How We Become What We Are 8 Essential Heidegger: poetics of the unsaid 9 Enframing education 10 Heidegger and Nietzsche: Nihilism and the Question of Value in relation to Education 11 Learning as Leavetaking and Homecoming 12 Education as a Form of the Poetic: A Heideggerian Approach to Learning and the Teacher-Pupil Relationship

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Both erudite and passionate, Gregory Smith's Martin Heidegger demonstrates the critical importance of Heidegger's thought for understanding our present philosophical dilemmas and for charting a genuinely human future. While fully acknowledging Heidegger's terrible political and moral errors and misdeeds, Smith at the same time rescues the profoundest level of his thinking from both its partisan detractors and its postmodernist vulgarizers. Smith's book merits the attention of all serious students of political philosophy.--Schaefer, David Lewis

"Both erudite and passionate, Gregory Smith's Martin Heidegger demonstrates the critical importance of Heidegger's thought for understanding our present philosophical dilemmas and for charting a genuinely human future. While fully acknowledging Heidegger's terrible political and moral errors and misdeeds, Smith at the same time rescues the profoundest level of his thinking from both its partisan detractors and its ""postmodernist"" vulgarizers. Smith's book merits the attention of all serious students of political philosophy. -- David Lewis Schaefer, Professor of Political Science, Holy Cross College. He is the author of Active Duty."

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Michael A. Peters is research professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Glasgow.

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