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Towards an Ontology of Teaching

Thing-centred Pedagogy, Affirmation and Love for the World

  • Develops a fully positive/affirmative ('post-critical') account of education and teaching
  • Introduces the ideas of a thing-centred pedagogy, educational love, and educational equality
  • Defends the idea that education is for education’s sake
  • Develops a fresh and original take on teaching

Part of the book series: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education (COPT, volume 11)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Introduction

    • Joris Vlieghe, Piotr Zamojski
    Pages 1-10
  3. The Event, the Messianic and the Affirmation of Life

    • Joris Vlieghe, Piotr Zamojski
    Pages 29-43
  4. Educational Equality and the Universal Excess of Teaching

    • Joris Vlieghe, Piotr Zamojski
    Pages 45-61
  5. Immanence and Transcendence in Education

    • Joris Vlieghe, Piotr Zamojski
    Pages 63-78
  6. Towards Immanence in Education: From Expertise to Ethos

    • Joris Vlieghe, Piotr Zamojski
    Pages 97-111
  7. Leonard Bernstein as an Educator: Teaching Out of Love for the World

    • Joris Vlieghe, Piotr Zamojski
    Pages 113-130
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 167-173

About this book

This book opens an original and timely perspective on why it is we teach and want to pass on our world to the new generation. Teaching is presented in this book as a way of being, rather than as a matter of expertise, which is driven by love for a subject matter. With the help of philosophical thinkers such as Arendt, Badiou and Agamben, the authors articulate a fully positive account of education that goes beyond the critical approach, which has become prevailing in much contemporary educational theory, and which testifies to a hate of the world and to a confusion of what politics and education are about. Therefore, the authors develop the idea of a thing-centred pedagogy, as opposed to both teacher-centred and student-centred approaches. The authors furthermore illustrate their purely educational account of teaching by looking at the writing and the television performance of Leonard Bernstein who embodies what teaching out of love and care for a subject is all about. This book isof interest to all those concerned with fundamental and philosophical questions about education and to those interested in (music) education. 



Authors and Affiliations

  • KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Joris Vlieghe

  • University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

    Piotr Zamojski

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eBook USD 54.99
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Softcover Book USD 69.99
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Hardcover Book USD 99.99
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