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1 online resource (187 pages) |
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New Directions in the Philosophy of Education |
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New directions in the philosophy of education series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Rousseau into the twenty-first century; 1 The ethics of authenticity and postmodern education; The enemy: bourgeois "man"; The ethics of authenticity; The postmodernist connection; Postmodern education; Rousseau in context; 2 At odds with his age; On the attack; Becoming authentic; Religion and the philosophes; The solitary?; Self-creation and self-writing; 3 The impossibility of Emile; Self-education; The quest for moral certainty; God and conscience; The impossibility of Emile; Idealizing natural man |
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The human animal4 The poeticization of culture; Emile's education; Sophie, or the Woman; The tutor's self-disclosure; The poeticization of culture; The politics of bifurcation; Being a poet; 5 The politics of the ménage à trois; Solidarity and compassion; Ironist culture; The politics of the ménage à trois; Household education: Julie; A society without slaves; On public instruction; 6 Self-creation and the eye of power; The loss of innocence; The eye of power; The social contract; The Legislator; Clarens, the panopticon society; The poetics of self-creation |
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Self-mastery and the ethics of self-careBibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book engages in a broad reading of Rousseau's writings on educational and political thought in order to explore and address the competing demands of the enculturation and individuation of the young in Western societies. Although Rousseau's Emile has been frequently utilised in educational debate, much of his other work has been largely neglected, as too has the relationship between his educational and political thinking, which this work seeks to redress. Drawing on the thinking of philosophers Foucault and Richard Rorty, the book considers the public and private conflicts of education and |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
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| SUBJECT |
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 fast |
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Education -- Philosophy.
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Education -- Political aspects.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy, French -- 18th century.
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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Education -- Philosophy
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Education -- Political aspects
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Philosophy, French
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Political science -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134492893 |
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1134492898 |
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