The Main Enterprise of the World
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-092897-1 (ISBN)
Kitcher build his arguments from three broad goals of education as an institution: career development and professionalization, civic participation, and human fulfilment. He shows that shifts in the workplace provide opportunities to focus on the latter two goals, and to liberate education from supposed economic constraints. By tying education to the strengthening of both individual lives and the foundations of democracy, he offers a humanistic rethinking of what education should try to achieve.
Drawing on figures like Dewey, Mill, Atkinson, and others who have written deeply on education, both in theory and in practice, Kitcher offers an extensive reconsideration of how we might change our educational institutions to respond not just to the twenty-first century economy, but to the deeper need for lifelong human flourishing. The Main Enterprise of the World renews classical Pragmatism: with one eye on the ideal, and the other on the world, it presents a picture of education appropriate for our century.
Philip Kitcher was born in 1947 in London (U.K.). He received his B.A. from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. from Princeton. He has taught at several American Universities, and is currently John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Columbia. He is the author of books on topics ranging from the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of biology, the growth of science, the role of science in society, naturalistic ethics, pragmatism, Wagner's Ring, Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and Mann's Death in Venice. In 2019, he was awarded the Rescher Medal for contributions to systematic philosophy.
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1. Overload
Chapter 2. Individuality
Chapter 3. Fulfillment
Chapter 4. Citizens
Chapter 5. Moral Development
Chapter 6. A Role for Religion?
Part II
Chapter 7. The Natural Sciences
Chapter 8. The Arts
Chapter 9. Understanding Ourselves
Part III
Chapter 10. Social Change
Chapter 11. Utopia?
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.10.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Walter Strauss Lecture Humanities |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 238 x 166 mm |
| Gewicht | 726 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-092897-2 / 0190928972 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-092897-1 / 9780190928971 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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