1st Edition
Irony and Singularity Aesthetic Education from Kant to Levinas
By Gary Peters
Copyright 2005
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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Although, initially, dealing with specifically pedagogical issues arising out of debates within the philosophy of education, the main thrust of this book tackles the more fundamental questions concerning communication, dialogue and solitude. Irony and Singularity introduces aesthetics into higher education not as an academic discipline among others but as part of a wider strategy to re-orientate... Read more
Contents: Preface; Teaching the unteachable: method and manner in Kant's aesthetics; Aesthetic education or aesthetic ideology? Schiller and de Man; Severity, ideality and pleasure: Hegel contra irony; Hearing, seeing, teaching: Nietzsche, Rosenzweig and the university; Dissymmetry and height: intersubjectivity and pedagogy in Husserl, Blanchot and Levinas; Judgement, critique and ignorance: afterword; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Dr Gary Peters is Senior Lecturer in Aesthetics at the Department of Visual Culture, University of the West of England, UK.
