Ethics, Aesthetics, and Education - A Levinasian Approach

This book explores Levinas' phenomenology of ethical motivation. Levinas is grounded in "radical alterity", the knowledge that ethics exists only when we are fully separate from someone else, allowing us to experience connection with one another. In this book, the author locates this ethics in embodiment, emotions, and imaginations and explores the intersection of aesthetics and education. 

List of contents

Chapter 1: Levinas' Ethics: a story relation, and radical alterity.- Chapter 2: Aesthetics, Body, and Ethics.- Chapter 3 Levinas in the Classroom: Working toward Ethical Consciousness. 

About the author

Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones specializes in aesthetics, curriculum theory, arts-based education research, and ethics. He founded ARTs (Arts-based Reflective Teaching), an elementary education teacher preparation program dedicated to aestheticizing the curriculum and making ethics central to both curriculum planning and teaching.

Summary

This book explores Levinas’ phenomenology of ethical motivation. Levinas is grounded in “radical alterity”, the knowledge that ethics exists only when we are fully separate from someone else, allowing us to experience connection with one another. In this book, the author locates this ethics in embodiment, emotions, and imaginations and explores the intersection of aesthetics and education. 

Product details

• Authors: D. Blumenfeld-Jones, D. Kahan Blumenfeld-Jones, Donald S Blumenfeld-Jones, Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones, Donald S. Kahan Blumenfeld-Jones, Louis Kahan
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2016
• EAN: 9781137556066
• ISBN: 978-1-137-55606-6
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Psychotherapie: Praxis; Palgrave Pivot; The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education; The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education; Cultural and Social Foundation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); C, Aesthetics, Religion and Philosophy