Diasporic Philosophy and Counter-Education / by I. Gur-Ze'ev.

• Superior document: Educational Futures, Rethinking Theory and Practice , 48
• VerfasserIn: Gur-Ze'ev, I.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed. 2011.
• Language: English
• Series: Educational Futures, Rethinking Theory and Practice , 48
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Diasporic Philosophy and Counter-Education addresses the challenges inflicted by the celebrated "new progressivism". It confronts the current omnipotent progressive anti-humanistic fire and its triumphant anti-Western redemptive crusade at all levels and dimensions of life under the post-metaphysical sky. In this book Diasporic counter-education does not surrender to the celebrated temptations of new-age nomadism as an alternative to the postmodern pleasure-machine's promise. It attempts to reach beyond the total war against the Jewish spirit and its manifestation in Western oppressive identity. It refuses any version of the continuum, "radical" or "conservative" self-indulgence, as well as current nihilist-pragmatic quests for self-forgetfulness. Diasporic awakening is a potentially universal and enduring erotic art of a never-to-be-concluded-self-constitution and re-positioning. The aim of this book is for it to become part of a new beginning in the face of the new global culture of mega-speeds, the exile of the humanist killer of God, the deconstruction of pre-conditions for transcendence and the growing probability of bringing to an End of all life on earth. This book seeks to become a waking call for improvisational co-poiesis; a counter-education that will groom us to become more courageous in responding to the invitation of hope, making humankind richer in the realization of our response-ability to Love of Life.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Introduction / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- The nomadic existence of the eternal improviser and Diasporic co-poiesis in the Era of Mega-Speed / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Diasporic philosophy, homelessness, and counter-education in context: the Israeli-Palestinian example / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Adorno and Horkheimer: Diasporic philosophy, negative theology, and counter-education / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Beyond peace education: toward co-poiesis and enduring improvisation / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Diasporic philosophy, counter-education and improvisation / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Judaism, postcolonialism and Diasporic education in the era of globalization / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev and Daniel Boyarin -- Diaspora, philosophy and counter-education in face of post-colonial reality / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- The Possibility of a new critical language from the sources of Jewish negative theology / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Education in the world of Diasporas / Zygmunt Bauman -- Nomadism: against methodological nationalism / Rosi Braidotti -- The coexistence of cultures / Tzvetan Todorov -- Vignettes of ambiguity / Ignacio L. Götz -- Language, identity, and exile / Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan -- Wittgenstein as exile: Philosophical Topography / Michael A. Peters -- Diaspora as catastrophe , Diaspora as a mission and the postcolonial philosophy of Edward Said / Ilan Pappe -- Homelessness, restlessness and Diasporic poetry / Arie Kizel -- Ecology and pedagogy: On the Educational Implications of Postwar Environmental Philosophy / Yotam Hotam -- Names index / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Subject index / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev.