Education, Dialogue and Hermeneutics

✍ Scribed by Paul Fairfield (editor)

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 177
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series page
Title page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Education, Dialogue and Hermeneutics
Chapter 1: Gadamer’s Experience and Theory of Education:
The Education of Hans-Georg Gadamer
Gadamer’s Vibrant Humanism: Learning from the Classics
A Culture of Questioning
Education as a Fusion of Horizons
The Meaning of Culture
Education is Self-Education
Chapter 2: Narrative Competence and the Massive Hermeneutical Background
Theory of Mind
Background Conceptions
First-Order Intersubjective Interactions
Narrative Competence
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Philosophical Hermeneutics: An Education for all Seasons?
Prelude: Three Concepts
A Late Guest
Problem and Claim
Disappointed?
Nothing is Standard
“Offne dich, mein ganzes Herze”: Humanist (Re-)Formation
A Moving Experience
Echoes: Humanist Reformations
The Power of the Useless or “How Philosophy can (indeed) be useful for the benefit of the people”!
And so?
Chapter 4: The Education of the Teacher
The Idea of Bildung
Humboldtian Education
Bildung and Truth
Chapter 5: Dialogue in the Classroom
Chapter 6: On the Dire Necessity of the Useless: Philosophical and Rhetorical Thoughts on Hermeneutics and Education in the Humanities
Hermeneutics at the Heart of Being Human
Listening to Talk in the Cave Allegory
Seeking Good Company
Chapter 7: Hermeneutic Education to Understanding: Self-Education and the Willingness to Risk Failure
The Hermeneutic Teacher
Understanding Life and Taking Responsibility for Action
The Imperative of Self-Education
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Education and Exemplars: On Learning to Doubt the Overman
Out of School: Education and Scholarship from Ivan Illich to Friedrich Nietzsche
Schooling Society
How We Become What We Are: On Getting Ourselves a Culture
Shadows at Midnight: Who is Nietzsche’s Übermensch?
Between Nietzsche’s Übermensch and Lucian’s Hyperanthropos
Index