Diasporic Philosophy and Counter-Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. The Nomadic Existence of the Eternal Improviser and Diasporic Co-Poiesis in the Era of Mega-Speed

   • Ilan Gur-Ze’ev

   Pages 29-45

3. Diasporic Philosophy, Homelessness, and Counter-Education in Context: The Israeli-Palestinian Example

   • Ilan Gur-Ze’ev

   Pages 47-58

4. Adorno and Horkheimer: Diasporic Philosophy, Negative Theology, and Counter-Education

   • Ilan Gur-Ze’ev

   Pages 59-81

5. Beyond Peace Education: Toward Co-Poiesis and Enduring Improvisation

   • Ilan Gur-Ze’ev

   Pages 83-117

6. Diasporic Philosophy, Counter-Education and Improvisation

   • Ilan Gur-Ze’ev

   Pages 119-125

7. Judaism, Postcolonialism and Diasporic Education in the Era of Globalization

   • Ilan Gur-Ze’ev

   Pages 127-140

8. Diaspora, Philosophy and Counter-Education in Face of Post-colonial Reality

   • Ilan Gur-Ze’ev

   Pages 141-169

9. The Posibility of a New Critical Language from the Sources of Jewish Negative Theology

   • Ilan Gur-Ze’ev

   Pages 171-191

10. Education in the World of Diasporas

    • Zygmunt Bauman

    Pages 193-206

11. Nomadism: Against Methodological Nationalism

    • Rosi Braidoti

    Pages 207-221

12. The Coexistence of Cultures

    • Tzvetan Todorov

    Pages 223-232

13. Vignetes of Ambiguity

    • Ignacio L. Götz

    Pages 233-250

14. Language, Identity, and Exile

    • Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan

    Pages 251-257

15. Witgenstein as Exile: Philosophical Topography

    • Michael A. Peters

    Pages 259-270

16. Diaspora as Catastrophe, Diaspora as a Mision and the Postcolonial Philosophy of Edward Said

    • Ilan Pape

    Pages 271-283

17. Homelesness, Restlesness and Diasporic Poetry

    • Arie Kizel

    Pages 285-299

18. Ecology and Pedagogy: On the Educational Implications of Postwar Environmental Philosophy

    • Yotam Hotam

    Pages 301-313

19. Back Matter

    Pages 315-322

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Diasporic Philosophy and Counter-Education addresses the challenges inflicted by the celebrated "new progressivism". It confronts the current omnipotent progressive anti-humanistic fire and its triumphant anti-Western redemptive crusade at all levels and dimensions of life under the post-metaphysical sky. In this book Diasporic counter-education does not surrender to the celebrated temptations of  new-age nomadism as an alternative to the postmodern pleasure-machine's promise. It attempts to reach beyond the total war against the Jewish spirit and its manifestation in Western oppressive identity.  It refuses any version of the continuum, "radical" or "conservative" self-indulgence, as well as current nihilist-pragmatic quests for self-forgetfulness. Diasporic awakening is a potentially universal and enduring erotic art of a never-to-be-concluded-self-constitution and re-positioning.  The aim of this book is for it to become part of a new beginning in the face of the new global culture of mega-speeds, the exile of the humanist killer of God, the deconstruction of pre-conditions for transcendence and the growing probability of bringing to an End of all life on earth. This book seeks to become a waking call for improvisational co-poiesis; a counter-education that will groom us to become more courageous in responding to the invitation of hope, making humankind richer in the realization of our response-ability to Love of Life.

• Philosophy of education

• University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  Ilan Gur-Ze’ev

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