Hannah Arendt : the promise of education / Jon Nixon.

This book gathers some of Hannah Arendt's core themes and focuses them on the question, 'What is education for?' For Arendt, as for Aristotle, education is the means whereby we achieve personal autonomy through the exercise of independent judgement, attain adulthood through the recogn...

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Main Author: Nixon, Jon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2020.
Series:SpringerBriefs in education. Key thinkers in education.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Arendt as public educator: an introduction to her life and work
  • Chapter 2. Natality, promise and plurality: education in and for the world
  • Chapter 3. Thinking, judgement and action: education for human agency
  • Chapter 4. Equality, freedom and the public sphere: towards an educated citizenry
  • Chapter 5. Education and intellectual friendship: mutual flourishing.