Shades of an uncivil education: teaching for political judgement in the wake of Brexit
In this seminar, Paul Standish explores the educational questions raised by Brexit.
Shades of an uncivil education: teaching for political judgement in the wake of Brexit
12 Feb 2020, 17:30 – 19:15
The present discussion places some of the educational questions raised by Brexit in relation to Eric Santner’s reflections on sovereignty, authority, capital, and commodification. These locate a crisis in representation, in politics and in art - a conjunction that lays the way for an argument, following Stanley Cavell, regarding the nature and place of critical judgement in political education.
Diagnosis of Brexit is available in terms now familiar (concern for sovereignty; nationalism and xenophobia; the new political/economic order “isn’t working for us”), while more ancient connections – of exodus, reckoning, and sacrifice – have been suggested recently by Kalypso Nicolaidis.
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Paul Standish held posts formerly at Sheffield and Dundee universities and was a teacher in schools and colleges for over twenty years.
He has authored or edited some twenty books, beginning with ‘Beyond the Self: Wittgenstein’, ‘Heidegger, and the Limits of Language’ (1992, Ashgate) and including most recently ‘Democracy and Education from Dewey to Cavell’ (2020, Wiley), co-authored with Naoko Saito. Paul was also the Editor of the ‘Journal of Philosophy of Education’ from 2001 to 2011 and is Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.
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