Hannah Arendt and Education: Renewing our Common World

By: Mordechai Gordon

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Synopsis: "Hannah Arendt And Education: Renewing Our Common Worlda"is the first book to bring together a collection of essays on Hannah Arendt and education. The contributors contend that Arendt offers a unique perspective, one which enhances the liberal and critical traditions'' call for transforming education so that it can foster the values of democratic citizenship and social justice. They focus on a wide array of Arendtian conceptsOCosuch as natality, action, freedom, public space, authority and judgmentOCowhich are particularly relevant for education in a democratic society. Teachers, educators, and citizens in general who are interested in democratic or civic education would benefit from reading this book. "