Harold T. Shapiro – A Larger Sense of Purpose

“A crisis in education is usually caused by a crisis in society that calls into question many existing ideas regarding the central issues of knowledge, culture, and society. The crisis fuels meaningful educational debates and propels changes in educational institutions such as universities. By meaningful debates I mean debates that lead to significant changes in the curriculum. Too often, long, drawn-out, and even bitter debates leave little trace on the learning experience of students. We often forget that it is not our internalized ideas regarding what we teach that matters, but what students learn, what they come to care about, and what they themselves become.” (7)

 

 

Mortimer Adler – The Paideia Proposol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paideia_Proposal

Werner Jaeger – Paideia

Jaeger is perhaps best known for his multivolume work “Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture”, an extensive consideration of both the earliest practices and later philosophical reflections on the cultural nature of education in Ancient Greece, which he hoped would restore a decadent early 20th century Europe to the values of its Hellenic origins. Jaeger coined the term Paideia, a shorthand for Greek education and culture, which is now used like Polis, Hellenism or Renaissance ranging in its use from the journal Paideia to the Paideia Proposal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Jaeger

Hans Blumenberg

Hans Blumenberg, the creator of metaphorology, was one of the most important German philosophers of  the latter 20th century.

• Shipwreck with Spectator -Paradigm of a Metaphor for Existence

• The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
• The Legibility of the world (onvindbaar?)

 

 

 

Superamas – Empire (Art & Politics) – vrijdag 30 januari 2009

http://www.vooruit.be/nl/event/1526

The West Wing – I am comforted at least in my certainty that he is doing his best to reach for all of it and not just the McNuggets.

Een fantastisch fragment uit de politieke HBO-serie The West wing, over filosofische kennis versus het opzeggen van one-liners, en over het nut van die kennis

Jef Geeraerts – Gangreen I – Black Venus

“Goed en Kwaad hadden nooit bestaan, de taal werd opnieuw kreet” schrijft Jef Geeraerts ergens in dit eerste deel van zijn Gangreen-cyclus. Hij beschrijft in dit boek de ontsnapping van een blanke man uit de verstikkende (seksuele) moraal van het katholieke Vlaanderen (en bij wijze van import & kolonialisme het Kongo van de ‘paterkes’ ). Geeraerts wil ontaarde boeken schrijven, die “de vracht van eeuwen geestelijke slavernij eindelijk kwijt raken!”. Retrospectief kijkt hij terug, “God in de hemel, het is nu al 1967 en wat ik hier ga vertellen gebeurde heel in het begin van die heidense, heilige periode, in het jaar 1955, het jaar van de basalten maagd ha”.