Hannah Arendt: The Promise of Education (SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education) (SpringerBriefs in Education)

by Jon Nixon

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This book gathers some of Hannah Arendt’s core themes and focuses them on the question, ‘What is education for?’ 
For Arendt, as for Aristotle, education is the means whereby we achieve personal autonomy through the exercise of independent judgement, attain adulthood through the recognition of others as equal but different, gain a sense of citizenship through the assumption of our civic rights and responsibilities, and realize our full potential as sentient beings with the capacity for human ‘flourishing’ and ‘happiness’ (eudaimonia). In order to appreciate the pivotal role that education plays in Arendt’s analysis of the human condition, we...

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  • ISBN13 9783030375720
  • Publish Date 2 January 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CH
  • Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG
  • Edition 1st ed. 2020
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 71
  • Language English