Learning from the Other: Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and Ethical Possibilities in Education (Suny Series, Second Thoughts) (SUNY series, Second Thoughts: New Theoretical Formations) - Softcover

Todd, Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791458369 ISBN 13: 9780791458365

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2003

Synopsis

Learning from the Other presents a philosophical investigation into the ethical possibilities of education, especially social justice education. In this original treatment, Sharon Todd rethinks the ethical basis of responsibility as emerging out of the everyday and complex ways we engage difference within educational settings. She works through the implications of the productive tension between the thought of Emmanuel Levinas and that of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Judith Butler, Cornelius Castoriadis, and others. Challenging the idea that knowledge about the other is the answer to questions of responsibility, she proposes that responsibility is rooted instead in a learning from the other. The author focuses on empathy, love, guilt, and listening to highlight the complex nature of learning from difference and to probe where the conditions for ethical possibility might lie.

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About the Author

Sharon Todd is Professor of Education at Maynooth University in Ireland. Her many books include Toward an Imperfect Education: Facing Humanity, Rethinking Cosmopolitanism and Learning from the Other: Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and Ethical Possibilities in Education, also published by SUNY Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791458369
• ISBN 13: 9780791458365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188