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Nietzsche's Legacy for Education Past and Present Values
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Book Code: H656
ISBN: 0-89789-656-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-656-6
264 pages
Bergin & Garvey
Publication: 10/30/2000
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • While some might argue with the editors' claim that Nietzsche was perhaps one of the greatest educators of the modern period, all readers will come away with a new appreciation for the way Nietzsche's powerful critique of mainstream views can inform educational ideas and practices....Recommended for graduate, faculty, and research collections.
    —Choice
Description: Despite being one of the greatest educators of the 19th century (perhaps of the modern period) and one of the greatest moral philosophers of all time, Nietzsche's educational thought and works, with some notable exceptions, have been ignored, or remain hidden and obscured. This was true of his philosophy as a whole and its recent reception, first by French poststructuralist thinkers during the 1960s and 1970s, and later by English-speaking philosophers in the 1980s. The controversy surrounding Nietzsche involves not only his "style" (his way of doing philosophy) and the radical nature of his inquiries, but also the history of Nietzscheanism, the politicization of the Nietzsche archive, and his appropriation by the Nazis. This international collection is unique in that it draws upon these recent developments in the interpretation of thought and the question of defining value in the era of postmodernity. The essays address a range of topics, including the history of the reception of Nietzsche's work, Nietzsche's early educational writings, genealogy as method, ethics and difference, democracy, Nietzsche's notion of self and its importance for education, the arts, the limits of academic life, Nietzsche's critique of liberal education, Irigaray's Nietzsche, and Nietzsche's critique of modernity and the question of nihilism.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Traces of Nietzsche: Interpretation, Translation and the Canon by Michael Peters and James Marshall
  • Learning the Grandeur of This Life by Juliane Vavaro
  • Pathein Mathein: Nietzsche on the Birth of Education by Valerie Allen and Ares Axiotis
  • Nietzsche: Deleuze, Foucault, and Genealogy as a Method for Education by F. Ruth Irwin
  • Ethics and Difference: A Critique of R.S. Peters' Ethics and Education by Peter Fitzsimons
  • Nietzsche, Education and Democracy by Scott Johnson
  • Nietzsche and Education: Learning to Make Sense for Oneself, Or Standing for One's Ideas by Paul Smeyers
  • Nietzsche's New Philosopher: The Arts and the Self by James D. Marshall
  • Nietzsche and the Limits of Academic Life by Peter Roberts
  • Revaluing the Self: Nietzsche's Critique of Liberal Education by Patrick Fitzsimons
  • Subjectivism and Beyond: On the Embeddedness of the Nietzschean Individual by Stefan Ramaekers
  • Luce Irigaray Celebrates Friedrich Nietzsche--and Teaches Sexual Difference by Betsan Martin
  • The Analytic/Continental Divide: Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Critique of Modernity by Michael Peters
  • Bibliography
LC Card Number: 00-036056
LCC Class: LB675
Dewey Class: 370
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