Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger: Philosophy, Modernity, and Education

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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."--  Read more... Machine generated contents note: pt. I PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION AND EDUCATION -- 1. The Paideia of Plato's Cave -- 2. The German Idea of Bildung -- 3. Authenticity: The Pedagogical Promise of Heidegger -- pt. II PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION AT A CROSSROADS -- 4. The Broken Thread of Tradition and Heidegger's Breaks -- 5. Reading Aristotle -- 6. Freedom and the World -- pt. III THE PEDAGOGICAL PROMISE OF PHILOSOPHY -- 7. "The Educational Principle": The Human Condition and the Power of Precedence -- 8. The Promise of Thinking.