Levinas and Education: At the Intersection of Faith and Reason

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ISBN: 9780415763851 | 0415763851
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Copyright: 2/29/2008

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This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume, providing an introduction to some of Levinas's major themes of ethics, justice, hope, hospitality, forgiveness, and more.

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Emmanuel Levinas: School Master and Pedagogue	p. 13
Levinas's Quest for Justice: Of Faith and the "possibility of education"	p. 26
Questioning Education	p. 41
The Importance of Enjoyment and Inspiration for Learning from a Teacher	p. 43
Levinas and the Language of the Curriculum	p. 56
Emmanuel Levinas, Literary Engagement, and Literature Education	p. 67
Other than the Other: Levinas and the Educational Questioning of Infinity	p. 85
Teaching Our Way Out When Nobody Knows the Way: A Levinasian Response to Modern Hope	p. 100
Thinking the Other-The Other Thinking: Remarks on the Relevance of the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas for the Philosophy of Education	p. 115
First Philosophy	p. 137
The Priority of Ethics Over Ontology, the Issue of Forgiveness and Education: Levinas's Face-to-Face Ethics	p. 139
Thinking Educational Ethics with Levinas and Jonas	p. 155
Welcoming and Difficult Learning: Reading Levinas with Education	p. 170
Autonomy and Heteronomy: Kant and Levinas	p. 186
Pedagogy with Empty Hands: Levinas, Education, and the Question of Being Human	p. 198
Between Ethics and Politics	p. 211
How Hospitable Can Dwelling Be? The Folds of Spatiality in Levinas	p. 213
Justice in the Name of the Other: Levinas on Rights and Responsibility	p. 228
Peace as Being Taught: The Philosophical Foundations of a Culture of Peace	p. 242
Dehiscence: A Dispersal of Levinas in the South Pacific, for Education	p. 253
Ethical Obligation in Caring for the Other: Reflections on Levinas	p. 272
Contributors	p. 287
Index	p. 293
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