UID:
almahu_9949402061002882
Format:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781350274198
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9781350274181
Series Statement:
Walter Benjamin Studies
Content:
"Bringing Walter Benjamin into dialogue with the urgent issues facing educational institutions today, this is the first comprehensive exploration of his philosophy of education and pedagogy. In recent years, problems concerning the practice of education have become central to the critical discourse in the humanities: from debates regarding "deplatforming" and the redefinition of free speech on campus to the digitization of learning and the ethics of mentorship. But where do we go from here? This volume argues that Walter Benjamin's writing offers critical tools to rethink the purposes of education and the institutional forms it should assume. Reaching from his earliest writings during his involvement with the antebellum German Youth Movement to his late essays on history, theatre, and new media, the authors here explore how Benjamin argued against education as an institutional task subject to a scientific discipline. They show instead how he took his cue from language as a medium of subtle understanding to critically analyze the forms of violence inherent in the concept and history of education. For Benjamin, education was the lever to political reform. For him, the experience of youth should always be at the centre of considerations. Written by leading international scholars, Walter Benjamin and Education both contextualizes Benjamin's pedagogy in the trajectory of his own thought and also offers an astute analysis of the value and relevance of his student-focused ideas to the institutional and political challenges of today."--
Note:
Foreword / Michael Jennings (Princeton University, USA) -- Introduction: Forces of Education / Dennis Johannssen (Lafayette College, USA) and Dominik Zechner (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA) -- Part I: Genealogies of Learning. 1. The Child in Benjamin: An Enduring Lesson / Henry Sussman (Yale University, USA) ; 2. Infans / Clemens-Carl Hr̈le (University of Siena, Italy) ; 3. A Lesson in Pedagogy: From Moral Instruction to Communist Pedagogy / Charles Gelman (New York University, USA) ; 4. Leitmotif Siegfried / Laurence A. Rickels (Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany) -- Part II: The Language of Youth. 5. Speaking Silence: Historical Subjectivity in Nietzsche and Benjamin / Ian Fleishman (University of Philadelphia, USA) ; 6. Conversational Pedagogy in Benjamin and Nietzsche / Natasha Hay (University of Toronto, Canada) ; 7. Transmission, Medium, and Silence: Benjamin's Metaphysics of Language and Youth / Adi Nester (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) ; 8. Against the Law: Youth and the Critical Pedagogy of Eternal Rebellion / Michael Powers (Kalamazoo College, USA) -- Part III: Mediations of the Pedagogical. 9. Improvision / Thomas Schestag (Brown University, USA) ; 10. Unfulfilled Historical Time and the Self-Pedagogy of Critique / Gerhard Richter (Brown University, USA) ; 11. 'In Voice Land:' Benjamin on Air / Ilit Ferber (Tel Aviv University, Israel) ; 12. Walter Benjamin and the Anthropocene / Nitzan Lebovic (Lehigh University, USA) -- Index.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781350274204
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.5040/9781350274198
URL:
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