1st Edition
Essays in the Phenomenology of Learning The Challenge of Proximity
By Fiachra Long
Copyright 2023
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the phenomenology of learning with particular focus on the ‘closeness’ or ‘proximity’ of the knowledge that impacts on learners, young and old.
Studying the power of learning to transform human beings, this book offers an in-depth discussion of how different phenomenologists understand this ‘proximate’ power. It draws on ideas of encounter from Husserl, care from Heidegger,... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I Approaches to proximity
- Socrates and the proximity of address
- Phenomenology and the proximity of learning
- Husserl and the proximity of encounter
- Heidegger and the proximity of care
- Boredom and the proximity of risk
- Merleau-Ponty and the proximity of body
- Foucault and the proximity of words
- Winnicott and the proximity of omnipotence
- Honneth and the proximity of recognition
Part II Phenomenological perspectives
Part III Fundamental proximity
Conclusion
Biography
Fiachra Long is retired Senior Lecturer in Education at University College Cork.
