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- Learning from the Other: Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and Ethical Possibilities in Education
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series, Second Thoughts: New Theoretical Formations
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. ix-x
- POSTSCRIPT: Where Are Ethical Possibilities?
- pp. 141-146
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 165-171
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791486290
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
54770898
Pages
188
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No