Plasticity and Education

Auteur

Kjetil Horn Hogstad works on fundamental questions in education, in particular questions of Bildung, culture, freedom and notions of biology. His doctoral thesis represented a rethinking of the educational concept Bildung from the angle of Catherine Malabou's philosophy. He is currently a Postdoctoral fellow working on interdisciplinarity, collaboration and hospitality in higher education.

Texte du rabat

This book explores the engagement between the philosophical concept of 'plasticity' and the radically changing space of educational thinking. Plasticity is a central concept in the philosophy of Catherine Malabou. It represents a new metaphor for the space between the creation, resistance, and total dissolution of form.

Contenu

1. Introduction: Plasticity and education 2. Philosophy of change in Catherine Malabou and in Martin Heidegger: The fantastic of childhood or the childhood of the fantastic 3. What does it mean to be a 'subject'? Malabou's plasticity and going beyond the question of the inhuman, posthuman, and nonhuman 4. The meaning of life: the ontological question concerning education through the lens of Catherine Malabou's contribution to thinking 5. Relearning to think: Toward a biological conception of rationality 6. Can we kill the Bildung king? - The quest for a non-sovereign concept of Bildung 7. Plasticity and education - an interview with Catherine Malabou 8. 'Plastic truth' after Catherine Malabou. Truth, Life, and Education 9. Rereading Intelligence with Catherine Malabou. Education, modernity and intelligence