Education for self-transformation: essay form as an educational practice
Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the inner struggle of 'lived experience' can articulate itself in the first person. Working through essays, the modern, 'post-secular' self can guide, understand, and express its own transformation. This is not merely a book about writing methods: it has a sharp existential edge. Beginning by defining…
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- Full title :Education for self-transformation : essay form as an educational practice / by Duck-Joo Kwak.
Summary
Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the inner struggle of 'lived experience' can articulate itself in the first person. Working through essays, the modern, 'post-secular' self can guide, understand, and express its own transformation. This is not merely a book about writing methods: it has a sharp existential edge. Beginning by defining key terms such as 'self-transformation', Kwak sketches the contemporary debates between Jurgen Haber.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:Dordrecht
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (x, 149 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789400724013, 9400724012
- oclc:ocn758488274
- LC Classification:LB1576
- Dewey Decimal:372.6/2
Table of Contents
pt. 1. George Lukács : practice of philosophy for existential fulfillment -- pt. 2. Stanley Cavell : practice of education in the essay-form.
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