Retuning Education: Bildung and Exemplarity Beyond the Logic of Progress
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Keywords: Bildung, Education, Exemplarity, Korsgaard,
Abstract :
The argument of the present book is a fairly simple one. It argues first that the primary principle of education concerns not where we are going but how to get started. Second, it argues that education is something we undertake and that we have in common. The first entails that rather than think of edu cation primarily from the vantage point of what we want to achieve or what we want education to deliver, we think it from the vantage point of begin ning. Rather than a progressive movement from A to B, from ignorant to knowledgeable, from imperfection to perfection, I wish to argue we should focus on how to get started. How to create moments of attention and interest towards something of common concern. This cannot be done in isolation, and hence it is a collective endeavour, even if sometimes it requires solitude. It concerns the directing of a becoming human’s gaze towards some aspect of the world we deem to be important enough to want to share it with the new comers of this world, or with those who are new to the subject matter at hand. In this sense, education is always about the relation we are able to establish between the educator, the educand, and the world, and education only ever happens in this constellation.
.Korsgaard, M. T. (2025). Retuning Education: Bildung and Exemplarity Beyond the Logic of Progress. Routledge
