Beyond the modern-postmodern struggle in education : : toward counter-education and eternal improvisation / / by Ilan Gur-Ze'ev.

• Superior document: Educational Futures ; 11
• VerfasserIn: Gur-Zeʼev, Ilan,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Educational Futures ; 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This book is an attempt to historically and conceptually address the present human condition and the current specific role of education as a distinctively creative symbolic violence. In doing so, the book reevaluates the various manifestations and conflicting alternatives to normalizing education. The author suggests a unique, Diasporic, counter-education that transcends modern politics, postmodern philosophical assumptions and spiritual telos towards an impetus for the re-birth of what the author refers to as the enduring improviser". It is a first step towards a new critical language that addresses the challenges of globalizing capitalism, of the cyberspace, of racism and of the new antisemitism that springs from postcolonialism. The book calls for a creative rearticulation of the relations between the aesthetic, the ethical, the intellectual and the bodily dimensions of the cosmos and human life. It is an invitation for a new Diasporic religiosity, one which turns courageously towards the exile of the gods. It addresses the ever-strengthening-and-tempting-sophistication of the anti-humanistic dimensions of "our" postmodern pleasure machine, of pre-modern "redemption" projects and of modern deceiving offers for "emancipation". The book is of special relevance for students of critical sociology, critical philosophy, Jewish philosophy, cultural studies, feminist studies, education—and for all friends of the free spirit.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Diasporic Philosophy, Homelessness, and Counter-education in Context: The Israeli-Palestinian Example / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Critical Theory, Critical Pedagogy and Diaspora Today / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Adorno and Horkheimer: Diasporic Philosophy, Negative Theology, and Counter-education / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Toward a Non-Repressive Critical Pedagogy / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Adorno, Horkheimer, Critical Theory and the Possibility of a Non-Repressive Critical Pedagogy / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Critical Education in Cyberspace? / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Martin Heidegger, Transcendence, and the Possibility of Counter-Education / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Beyond postmodern feminist critical pedagogy / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Cyberfeminism and Education in the Era of the Exile of Spirit / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Sports Education Facing Globalizing Capitalism / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Driving as a Manifestation of the Essence of the Current Historical Moment / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Counter-education in face of Holocaust/Nakbah as an Israeli/Palestinian Homeland / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Philosophy of peace education in a postmodern era / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Post-colonialism, new racism, new anti-Semitism, and the boycott of Israeli academia (a lecture presented at the Oxford GBPES 2006 conference) / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Names Index / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Subjects Index / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev.