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Learning from the Other: Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and Ethical Possibilities in Education

By Sharon Todd

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0791458350, 9780791458358, 9781417500932
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15686288 bytes)
Series
Second Thoughts: New Theoretical Formations
Pages
178\189
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Learning from the Other presents a philosophical investigation into the ethical possibilities of education, especially social justice education. In this original treatment, Sharon Todd rethinks the ethical basis of responsibility as emerging out of the everyday and complex ways we engage difference within educational settings. She works through the implications of the productive tension between the thought of Emmanuel Levinas and that of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Judith Butler, Cornelius Castoriadis, and others. Challenging the idea that knowledge about the other is the answer to questions of responsibility, she proposes that responsibility is rooted instead in a learning from the other. The author focuses on empathy, love, guilt, and listening to highlight the complex nature of learning from difference and to probe where the conditions for ethical possibility might lie.

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