1st Edition

Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education Nine Modern European Philosophers

By Alexandre Guilherme, W. John Morgan Copyright 2018
198 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education is an advanced introduction to nine key European social philosophers: Martin Buber, Mikhail Bakhtin, Lev Vygotsky, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone Weil, Michael Oakeshott, and Jürgen Habermas. This detailed yet highly readable work positions the socio-political views of each philosopher within a European tradition of dialogical... Read more

Introduction

  1. Martin Buber (1878-1965) – Dialogue as the Inclusion of the Other
  2. Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) – The Dialogic Imagination
  3. Lev S. Vygotsky (1896-1934) – Dialogue as Mediation and Inner Speech
  4. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) – Dialogue as a Public Space
  5. Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) – Dialogue as an Ethical Demand of the Other
  6. Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) – Dialogue as Being Present to the Other
  7. Simone Weil (1909-1943) – Dialogue as an Instrument of Power
  8. Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) – Dialogue as Conversation
  9. Jűrgen Habermas (1929- ) – Dialogue as Communicative Rationality

Conclusion

Bibliography

Biography

Alexandre Guilherme is Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities, Department of Education; he is also the Coordinator of the Research Group on Education and Violence at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, PUCRS, Brazil.

W. John Morgan is Professor Emeritus and formerly UNESCO Chair of the Political Economy of Education, School of Education, University of Nottingham; Honorary Professor, School of Social Sciences, and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data, and Methods, Cardiff University; for which he is preparing a study of ‘UNESCO and the Cultural Cold War.’