Spinoza

Fiction and Manipulation in Civic Education

Johan Dahlbeck (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

90 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-16-7124-1 (ISBN)

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This book is a philosophical enquiry into the educational consequences of Spinoza’s political theory. Spinoza’s political theory is of particular interest for educational thought as it brings together the normative aims of his ethical theory with his realistic depiction of human psychology and the ramifications of this for successful political governance. As such, this book aims to introduce the reader to Spinoza’s original vision of civic education, as a project that ultimately aims at the ethical flourishing of individuals, while being carefully tailored and adjusted to the natural limitations of human reason.
Readers will benefit from a succinct introduction to Spinoza’s political philosophy and from an account of civic education that is based on careful exegetical work. It draws conclusions only hinted at in Spinoza’s own writings.

Johan Dahlbeck is Associate Professor of Education at Malmö University, Sweden. His research interest is in the philosophy of education, focusing especially on the convergence of ethics, political philosophy and educational theory. Dahlbeck has recently published two research monographs: Education and Free Will: Spinoza, Causal Determinism and Moral Formation (Routledge, 2018) and Spinoza and Education: Freedom, Understanding and Empowerment (Routledge, 2016), as well as co-edited a recent special issue on exemplarism in Spinoza and Arendt (Ethics and Education, 15:2, 2020). Dahlbeck’s research is also published in academic journals such as Journal of Philosophy of Education, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Ethics and Education, Philosophy of Education Yearbook, and Educational Philosophy and Theory as well as in anthologies such as International Handbook of Philosophy of Education (ed. Paul Smeyers, 2018). Dahlbeck is currently a programcoordinator of the international MA program in Educational Theory at Malmö University.

Chapter 1. Spinoza’s Political Theory and Its Consequences for Civic Education: On Prophets, Philosophers, and Educators.- Chapter 2. Illusions and Fictions: Educating the Imagination.- Chapter 3. The Pedagogical Importance of Ingenium: Exemplarism and Popular Narratives.- Chapter 4. Teaching Doctrines to People: Manipulation and Civic Education.- Chapter 5. Spinoza’s Lesson to the Contemporary Political Imagination.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.11.2021
Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Education
Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkers in Education
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 90 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
Schlagworte	Educating the Passions • Exemplarism in Education • Fictions in Education • Indoctrination in Spinoza • Manipulation in Education • Narratives in Education • Relational Autonomy • Spinoza on Education • Spinoza’s Civic Education • Spinoza’s Political Theory
ISBN-10	981-16-7124-9 / 9811671249
ISBN-13	978-981-16-7124-1 / 9789811671241
Zustand	Neuware