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A taste for new meaning : Hannah Arendt and educational thought Giles, Graham
Abstract
This thesis brings the work of twentieth century political philosopher Hannah Arendt to a consideration of educational thought. It argues for and seeks to demonstrate ways in which Arendt's oeuvre provokes and vitalizes educational thought as it concerns pluralism, ethics, democracy, knowledge, meaning and critique. In seeking "new landscapes to think from" for education, it invites Arendt's phenomenological recovery of the political, the public realm, to disturb particular forms of thought that give shape to contemporary education. It specifically engages the problematics of modernity, in its expressions as the liberal self, instrumental rationality and alienating structures of authority. The author argues that these reiterate the bankruptcy of meaning which Arendt calls "worldlessness," and that this concern is of deep and continuing significance to education. In a reconsideration of understanding and meaning beyond the automatism and ubiquity of the liberal self, this thesis then considers how thinking, judging, action and speech, as Arendt posits them, may call upon education to better enact its "promise to the world" of freedom and human dignity.
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A taste for new meaning : Hannah Arendt and educational thought
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University of British Columbia
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2007
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This thesis brings the work of twentieth century political philosopher Hannah Arendt to a
consideration of educational thought. It argues for and seeks to demonstrate ways in
which Arendt's oeuvre provokes and vitalizes educational thought as it concerns
pluralism, ethics, democracy, knowledge, meaning and critique. In seeking "new
landscapes to think from" for education, it invites Arendt's phenomenological recovery
of the political, the public realm, to disturb particular forms of thought that give shape to
contemporary education. It specifically engages the problematics of modernity, in its
expressions as the liberal self, instrumental rationality and alienating structures of
authority. The author argues that these reiterate the bankruptcy of meaning which Arendt
calls "worldlessness," and that this concern is of deep and continuing significance to
education. In a reconsideration of understanding and meaning beyond the automatism
and ubiquity of the liberal self, this thesis then considers how thinking, judging, action
and speech, as Arendt posits them, may call upon education to better enact its "promise to
the world" of freedom and human dignity.
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eng
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2011-02-28
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
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10.14288/1.0100908
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University of British Columbia
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Graduate
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