Education and conversation : exploring Oakeshott's legacy /

Education and conversation : exploring Oakeshott's legacy /

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Imprint:New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Oakeshott, Michael, -- 1901-1990 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Oakeshott, Michael, -- 1901-1990.
Education, Humanistic.
Education, Humanistic.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12646080
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Other authors / contributors:Bakhurst, David, editor.
Fairfield, Paul, 1966- editor.
ISBN:9781472584359
147258435X
9781472584342
1472584341
9781474287289
147428728X
9781472584335
1472584333
9781472584328
1472584325
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:"Since Michael Oakeshott spoke of education as initiation into "the conversation of mankind" more than fifty years ago, the idea has inspired a diverse array of thinkers and continues to be invoked today by those seeking to resist the influence of managerialism and narrow instrumentalism in educational policy and practice. Education and Conversation draws together papers written by scholars from both the analytic and continental philosophical traditions to offer a variety of perspectives on the implications of Oakeshott's educational ideas. The metaphor of the conversation of mankind is explored, together with the roots of Oakeshott's thinking in his early philosophical work, the relevance of his ideas to the concept of Bildung, and the significance of his political conservatism in evaluating the seemingly progressive potential of his educational ideas. In addition, concepts prominent in Oakeshott's thought are taken up and brought to bear on contemporary philosophical discussions about education, learning and development, including the nature of initiation, the phenomenology of listening, and the value of the liberal arts tradition. Education and Conversation shows how the idea of conversation illuminates both the character and the ends of education, yielding insight into the scope and limits of the philosophy of education and the character of philosophical inquiry more generally"--
Other form:Print version: Education and conversation. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 9781472584335
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Education and Conversation
  • 2. Experience in Experience and Its Modes
  • 3. Oakeshottian Pragmatism - Conversation or Inquiry?
  • 4. Bildung, Post-Kantian Idealism and the Conversation of Mankind
  • 5. Conservatism, Perfectionism and Equality
  • 6. Oakeshott, Bonnett, Derrida and the Possibilities of Thought
  • 7. A Turn in the Conversation
  • 8. A Phenomenology of Listening
  • 9. Conversation and Processes of Recognition
  • 10. Old Directions for New Minds
  • 11. Education and Autonomy
  • 12. Getting to Hogwarts - Michael Oakeshott
  • Index

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