Overview
- Presents one of the first volumes about Hannah Arendt's life, work, and educational views
- Interests educational practitioners, researchers, and scholars in educational theory and practice
- Is accessible to postgraduate students with an interest in relating Arendt’s broad framework of ideas to the current debate on education
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education (BRIEFSKEY)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Hannah Arendt
- Human Action
- Quality of Education
- Human Interaction in Education
- Plurality Promise Natality
- Social Engagement in Education
- Aristotle
- The Human Condition 1958
- 1951 The Origins of Totalitarianism
- 1963 Eichmann in Jerusalem
- 1978 The Life of the Mind
- Citizenship through Education
- Education and Plurality
- Representative Thinking
About this book
This book gathers some of Hannah Arendt’s core themes and focuses them on the question, ‘What is education for?’
For Arendt, as for Aristotle, education is the means whereby we achieve personal autonomy through the exercise of independent judgement, attain adulthood through the recognition of others as equal but different, gain a sense of citizenship through the assumption of our civic rights and responsibilities, and realize our full potential as sentient beings with the capacity for human ‘flourishing’ and ‘happiness’ (eudaimonia). In order to appreciate the pivotal role that education plays in Arendt’s analysis of the human condition, we have to understand the emphasis she placed on ‘thoughtfulness’, as the measure of our humanity and on ‘thoughtlessness’, as the measure of our inhumanity. Education sustains and develops the human capacity: to think together (phronesis), to think for oneself (what Arendt called ‘the two-in-one’ of thinking), and to think from the point of view of others (what she termed ‘representative thinking’).
From the developing constellation of ideas embedded in her vast and varied body of work, the author infers a notion of education as a necessary preparation for personal fulfillment, social engagement, and civic participation.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hannah Arendt
Book Subtitle: The Promise of Education
Authors: Jon Nixon
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37573-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37572-0Published: 02 January 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37573-7Published: 01 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 71
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations