Heidegger, Education, and Modernity

Martin Heidegger is, perhaps, the most controversial philosopher of the twentieth-century. Little has been written on him or about his work and its significance for educational thought. This unique collection by a group of international scholars reexamines Heidegger's work and its legacy for educational thought.

1 Introduction: Heidegger, Education and Modernity 2 Heidegger on the Art of Teaching 3 Truth, Science, Thinking and Distress 4 Martin Heidegger, Transcendence, and the Possibility of Counter-Education 5 The Origin Of ... : Education, Philosophy and a Work of Art 6 Comfortably Numb in the Digital Era: Man's Being as Standing-Reserve or Dwelling Silently 7 Heidegger on Ontological Education, or: How We Become What We Are 8 Essential Heidegger: poetics of the unsaid 9 Enframing education 10 Heidegger and Nietzsche: Nihilism and the Question of Value in relation to Education 11 Learning as Leavetaking and Homecoming 12 Education as a Form of the Poetic: A Heideggerian Approach to Learning and the Teacher-Pupil Relationship