Contradiction of Enlightenment: Hegel and the Broken MiddleAn examination of the determination of the concept of enlightenment, and related notions, within modern social relations. The work opens up innovative areas of research into the relationship between philosophy, social relations, and education. It applies Gillian Rose's work on the broken middle of Hegelian philosophy to social and educational theorizing. It offers a critique of the idea of enlightenment, and of the identity of the teacher in social theory - Rousseau, Marx and Durkheim - in critical theory - Habermas and Adorno - in postmodernism - Foucalt and Nietzsche - and in a variety of educational and pedagogical theories. The book concludes with an original application of Hegelian speculative philosophy to the teacher/student relationship. This work challenges those working in social theory and in education to comprehend the contradictions on their theorising as a shared philosophical consciousness, a shared broken middle. |
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The despairing teacher | 7 |
Teachers of critique 1455 | 77 |
Contradiction of enlightenment | 97 |
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absolute abstract achieved activity actual Adorno already Althusser appears become beginning Bourdieu bourgeois property relations broken middle circle civil society classroom comprehend contradictory critical critical pedagogy critique cultural arbitrary dependent despairing teacher determinate negation dialectic of enlightenment discourse division of labour domination Durkheim education relation eternal return ethical examined exchange-value existence Foucault freedom Freire genealogy Giroux Habermas Hegel Hegelian identity ideological illusion illusory independence individual knowledge relation known learning longer Marx master merely misrecognition mountain mutual recognition natural consciousness negative object overcome overman particular pedagogic action pedagogic authority person personification Phenomenology Phenomenology of Spirit philosophical consciousness positive power relations presupposed presupposition pupils rational realised reason reflection refuses relation and non-relation relationship repeats repetition reproduce ressentiment result Rose Rousseau says seeks self-consciousness self-determination self-light self-relation separation shadow shining slave spirit subject and substance teacher and student teacher/student teaching truth unhappy consciousness unity universal victory visible whole will-to-power Zarathustra