Educating Humanity: Bildung in Postmodernity

During the past decade there has been renewed interest in the German idea of Bildung. This collection of newly written essays asks how this classical idea of an education of the self – as proposed by neo–humanists such as Schiller, Von Humboldt and Hegel – can make sense of the education of humanity in the information age. The contributors to the book share the conviction that, as long as problems of self and society engage us, the legacy of this serious humanist thought is still relevant; all the more so, because central to the idea of Bildung is the idea of a dynamic transformation extending through culture and politics.
This timely re–examination of the tradition of Bildung in the context of postmodernity offering crucial insights for the theory, practice and politics of education.

Spis treści:
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction: Bildung and the idea of a liberal education: Lars Løvlie and Paul Standish.
2. Bildung and the Thinking of Bildung: Sven Erik Nordenbo.
3. The Idea of a Universal Theory of Education – an Impossible but Necessary Project?: Michael Uljens.
4. How General Can Bildung Be? Reflections on the Future of a Modern Education Ideal: Gery Biesta.
5. Bildung and Critical Theory in the Face of Postmodern Education: Ilan Gur–Ze′ev.
6. On Irritation and Transformation: A–teleological Bildung and its Significance for the Democratic Form of Living: Roland Reichenbach.
7. Beyond the Present State of Affairs: Bildung and the Search for Orientation in Rapidly Transforming Societies: Halmut Peukert.
8. The Double Call: on Bildung in a literary and reflective perspective: Klaus Peter Mortensen.
9. Modernising Media or Modernist Medium? The Struggle for Liberal Oearning in Our Information Age: Rene V. Arcilla.
10. The Promise of Bildung: Lars Løvlie.
11. Ill usion – How Friedrich Schiller Can Cast Light on Bildung: Hansjorg Hohr.
Bibliography.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Lars Løvlie is a Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Klaus Peter Mortensen works at the Pedagogical University, Denmark.
Sven–Erik Nordenbo is based at Copenhagan University, Denmark.

Okładka tylna:
During the past decade there has been renewed interest in the German idea of Bildung. This collection of newly written essays asks how this classical idea of an education of the self – as proposed by neo–humanists such as Schiller, Von Humboldt and Hegel – can make sense of the education of humanity in the information age. The contributors to the book share the conviction that, as long as problems of self and society engage us, the legacy of this serious humanist thought is still relevant; all the more so, because central to the idea of Bildung is the idea of a dynamic transformation extending through culture and politics.
This timely re–examination of the tradition of Bildung in the context of postmodernity offering crucial insights for the theory, practice and politics of education.