Overview
- Frees education for thinking from the Anglo-American paradigm, allowing it to draw on the rich landscape of continental philosophy
- Sheds new light on the political significance of thinking
- Discusses the concept of thinking in the growing field of continental educational philosophy
Part of the book series: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education (COPT, volume 17)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (7 chapters)
-
Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book draws on five philosophers from the continental tradition – Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Rancière – in order to “think about thinking” and offer new and surprising answers to the question: How can we educate students to think creatively and critically? Despite their differences, all of these philosophers challenge the modern understanding of thinking, and offer original, radical perspectives on it. In very different ways, each rejects the modern approach to thinking, as well as the reduction of proper thought to rationality, situating thinking in sociohistorical reality and relating it to political action. Thinking, they argue, is not a natural, automatic activity, and the need to think has become all the more important as political reality seems to exhibit less thinking, or to even celebrate thoughtlessness. Bringing these continental conceptions of thinking to bear on the urgent need to educate young people to think againstthe current, this book makes a significant contribution to educational theory and political philosophy, one that is particularly relevant in today’s anti-intellectual climate.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Education and Thinking in Continental Philosophy
Book Subtitle: Thinking against the Current in Adorno, Arendt, Deleuze, Derrida and Rancière
Authors: Itay Snir
Series Title: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56526-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56525-1Published: 29 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56528-2Published: 30 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56526-8Published: 28 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2214-9759
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9767
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 185
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Curriculum Studies