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The tragedy of totalitarianism, one of the most important turns in the modern philosophy and history of the West undergirds the intellectual relationship between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. The rise of totalitarianism caused the disruption of traditional metaphysical and political categories and the necessity of a painstaking forging of new languages for the description of reality.
This book argues that Arendt's answer to Heidegger's philosophy, intelligible only within the wider context of both thinkers' struggles with the philosophical tradition of the West, also opens up a new horizon of conceptualizing the relationship between philosophy and education. Paulina Sosnowska develops Arendt's thesis of the broken thread of tradition and situates it in the wider context of Heideggerian philosophy and his entanglement with Nazism, and consequently, questions the traditional relationship between philosophy and education. The final parts of this book return to the problem of dialogue between philosophy, thinking, and university education in times when the political and ethical framework is no longer determined by the continuity of tradition, but the caesura of twentieth-century totalitarianism.
List of contents
Preface & Acknowledgments
Part I: Philosophical Tradition and Education
Chapter 1: The Paideia of Plato's Cave
Chapter 2: The German Idea of Bildung
Chapter 3: Authenticity -The Pedagogical Promise of Heidegger
Part II: Philosophy and Education at a Crossroads
Chapter 4: The Broken Thread of Tradition and Heidegger's Breaks
Chapter 5: Reading Aristotle
Chapter 6: Freedom and The World
Part III: The Pedagogical Promise of Philosophy
Chapter 7: "The Educational Principle": the Human Condition and the Power of Precedence
Chapter 8: The Promise of Thinking
Afterword
About the author
Paulina Sosnowska is assistant professor at Warsaw University.
Summary
The book examines the trajectory of joint philosophical-pedagogical concepts within the framework of the dialogue between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, put in the context of questions concerning the nature of modernity.
