{"product_id":"forces-of-education-9781350274167","title":"Forces of Education","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing   Walter Benjamin into dialogue with the urgent issues facing educational   institutions today, this is the first comprehensive exploration of his philosophy   of education and pedagogy.                   In   recent years, problems concerning the practice of education have become   central to the critical discourse in the humanities: from debates regarding   deplatforming and the redefinition of free speech on campus to the   digitization of learning and the ethics of mentorship. But where do   we go from here? This volume argues that Walter Benjamin's writing offers   critical tools to rethink the \u003ci\u003epurposes \u003c\/i\u003eof   education and the \u003ci\u003einstitutional forms \u003c\/i\u003eit   should assume.        Reaching   from his earliest writings during his involvement with the antebellum German   Youth Movement to his late essays on history, theatre, and new media, the   authors here explore how Benjamin argued against education as an   institutional task subject to a   scientific discipline. T\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecent scholarship on Benjamin has found new urgency in his writings on childhood, education, and pedagogy. The current collection of essays is a significant contribution to this growing body of literature. Anyone who reads Forces of Education will undoubtably recognize Benjamin himself as an angel of history, gazing upon the ruins of our educational institutions while nevertheless remaining in flight, propelled by the idea of education’s potential redemption. * Tyson E. Lewis, Professor of Art Education, University of North Texas, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations Preface: Pedagogy and Experience in Walter Benjamin, \u003ci\u003eMichael Jennings (Princeton University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Introduction, \u003ci\u003eDennis Johannßen (Lafayette   College, USA) and Dominik Zechner (Rutgers, The State University of New   Jersey, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e Chronicle of Benjamin's School and Student Years,\u003ci\u003e Dennis Johannßen (Lafayette College, USA) and Dominik Zechner (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart I:   Genealogies of Learning\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Infans, \u003ci\u003eClemens-Carl Härle (University of Siena, Italy)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Learning from Experience: Elements of Self-Criticism in Benjamin's Works, \u003ci\u003eCharles Gelman (New York University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Leitmotif Siegfried, \u003ci\u003eLaurence A. Rickels (Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e4. \u003c\/i\u003eThe Child in Benjamin: An Enduring Lesson, \u003ci\u003eHenry Sussman (Yale University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart II: Languages of Youth\u003c\/b\u003e 5. Conversational Pedagogy in Benjamin and Nietzsche, \u003ci\u003eNatasha Hay (University of Toronto, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Speaking Silence: Historical Subjectivity in Nietzsche and Benjamin, \u003ci\u003eIan Fleishman (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Pennsylvania\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Silence, Medium, Transmission: Benjamin’s Metaphysics of Language and Youth, \u003ci\u003eAdi Nester (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. \"In Voice Land\": Benjamin on Air, \u003ci\u003eIlit Ferber (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart III: Envisioning Pedagogical Futures\u003c\/b\u003e 9. Unfulfilled Historical Time and the Self-Pedagogy of Critique, \u003ci\u003eGerhard Richter (Brown University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Against the Law: Youth and the Critical Pedagogy of Eternal Rebellion, Michael Powers \u003ci\u003e(Macalester College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Improvision, \u003ci\u003eThomas Schestag (Brown University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Walter Benjamin and the Anthropocene, \u003ci\u003eNitzan Lebovic (Lehigh University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eList of Contributors \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eIndex  \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019648565591,"sku":"9781350274167","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350274167.jpg?v=1750780901","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/forces-of-education-9781350274167","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}