This book, bringing together contributions by forty-five authors from
fourteen countries, represents mostly new material from both emerging
and seasoned scholars in the field of philosophy of education.
Topics range widely both within and across the four parts of the book:
Wittgenstein’s biography and style as an educator and philosopher,
illustrating the pedagogical dimensions of his early and late
philosophy; Wittgenstein’s thought and methods in relation to other
philosophers such as Cavell, Dewey, Foucault, Hegel and the Buddha;
contrasting investigations of training in relation to initiation into
forms of life, emotions, mathematics and the arts (dance, poetry,
film, and drama), including questions from theory of mind (nativism
vs. initiation into social practices), neuroscience, primate studies,
constructivism and relativity; and the role of Wittgenstein’s
philosophy in religious studies and moral philosophy, as well as their
profound impact on his own life. This collection explores Wittgenstein
not so much as a philosopher who provides a method for teaching or
analyzing educational concepts but rather as one who approaches
philosophical questions from a pedagogical point of view.
Wittgenstein’s philosophy is essentially pedagogical: he provides
pictures, drawings, analogies, similes, jokes, equations, dialogues
with himself, questions and wrong answers, experiments and so on, as a
means of shifting our thinking, or of helping us escape the pictures
that hold us captive.
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ISBN
9789811031366
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
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Springer
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok