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Beyond the Modern-Postmodern Struggle in Education: Toward Counter-Education and Enduring Improvisation

Beyond the Modern-Postmodern Struggle in Education: Toward Counter-Education and Enduring Improvisation

Gur-Ze'ev, Ilan

Paperback

General Education

ISBN10: 9087900716
ISBN13: 9789087900717
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 1 2007
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
This book is an attempt to historically and conceptually address the present human condition and the current specific role of education as a distinctively creative symbolic violence. In doing so, the book reevaluates the various manifestations and conflicting alternatives to normalizing education. The author suggests a unique, Diasporic, counter-education that transcends modern politics, postmodern philosophical assumptions and spiritual telos towards an impetus for the re-birth of what the author refers to as the enduring improviser. It is a first step towards a new critical language that addresses the challenges of globalizing capitalism, of the cyberspace, of racism and of the new antisemitism that springs from postcolonialism. The book calls for a creative rearticulation of the relations between the aesthetic, the ethical, the intellectual and the bodily dimensions of the cosmos and human life. It is an invitation for a new Diasporic religiosity, one which turns courageously towards the exile of the gods. It addresses the ever-strengthening-and-tempting-sophistication of the anti-humanistic dimensions of our postmodern pleasure machine, of pre-modern redemption projects and of modern deceiving offers for emancipation. The book is of special relevance for students of critical sociology, critical philosophy, Jewish philosophy, cultural studies, feminist studies, education--and for all friends of the free spirit.

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