The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson

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Fordham Univ Press, 18/09/2018 - 228 páginas
In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology and procedures of standardization and quantification. Such attempts to make all aspects of practice transparent and subject to systematic accounting lack sensitivity to the invisible and the silent, to something in the human condition that cannot readily be expressed in an either-or form. Seeking alternatives to such trends, Saito reads Dewey’s idea of progressive education through the lens of Emersonian moral perfectionism (to borrow a term coined by Stanley Cavell). She elucidates a spiritual and aesthetic dimension to Dewey’s notion of growth, one considerably richer than what Dewey alone presents in his typically scientific terminology.
 

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Acknowledgments
Deweyan
Dewey between Hegel and Darwin
Dewey beyond Hegel and Darwin
Gaining from
Deweys Emersonian View of Ends
Gaining
Reconstruction toward Holistic Growth
Transcending the Tragic with
Toward Perfectionist
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Stanley Cavell is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Harvard University. His recent publications include A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises; Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, and Derrida; Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life and Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes.

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