Heidegger, Education, and Modernity

By (author) Michael A. Peters Professor, University of Waikato, New Zealand Contributions by Valerie Allen, Ares D. Axiotis, Michael Bonnett, David E Cooper Emeritus Professor, Unive, Patrick Fitzsimons, Ilan Gur-Ze'ev, Padraig Hogan, F Ruth Irwin, Bert Lambeir, Paul Smeyers, Paul Standish, Iain Thomson

Publication date:

06 August 2002

Length of book:

288 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

235x159mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742508866

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.

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

Both erudite and passionate, Gregory Smith'sMartin 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.