Week 1 Introduction
Reading
‘From the underground to the Ridiculous: Dostoevsky, Existentialism and Education’, Peter Roberts, New Zealand: University of Canterbury
Unpublished paper reproduced with permission from the author
Sartre, J.P. (2007) Existentialism and Humanism, London: Methuen
Wider reading
Barratt, W. (1958) Irrational Man, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, Inc
Caygill, H. (1998) The Colour of Experience, London: Routledge, chapter 1
Dostoevsky, F. (1992) Notes from the Underground, New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
Kaufmann, W. (1975) Existentialism, From Dostoevsky to Sartre, London: Plume
Kierkegaard, S. (1965) The Last Years, Journals 1853-55 by Soren Kierkegaard, Collins
Hegel, G.W.F. (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Marx, K. ‘Theses on Feuerbach’ no. 11, in Marx, K. (1974) Early Writings, Harmondsworth, Penguin, p 423.
Sartre, J.P. (2007) Existentialism and Humanism, London: Methuen
Tubbs, N. (1997) Contradiction of Enlightenment, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 101-106.
Tubbs, N. (2004) Philosophy’s Higher Education, Dordrecht: Kluwer, chapter 2.
Tubbs, N. (2005) Philosophy of the Teacher, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 9-11 & Chapter 6.
Tubbs, N. (2008) Education in Hegel, London: Continuum.
Gadamer, H.G. (1979) Truth and Method, London, Sheed and Ward, pp. 317-18.
Solomon, R.C. and Sherman, D. (eds.) (2003) The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, Oxford, Blackwell, chapter 1.
Week 2 Negative education – Socrates and Kierkegaard
Reading
Plato, (1987) The Trial and Death of Socrates, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, trans. G.M.A. Grube. http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html
Kierkegaard, S. (1989) The Concept of Irony, Princeton, Princeton University Press, pp. 34-6, 175-8.
Wider reading
Abbs, P. (1993) Socratic Education, University of Hull.
Abbs, P. (2003) Against the Flow, London: RoutledgeFalmer, pp. 72-9.
Blake, N. et al, (2000) Education in an Age of Nihilism, London: RoutledgeFalmer, chapter 12.
Fine, G. (1999) Plato 1: metaphysics and epistemology, Oxford University Press, chapters 1 and 2.
Hogan, P. (2003) ‘Teaching and Learning as a Way of Life,’ in Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp 207-223 (in library).
Kraut, R. (1984) Socrates and the State, Princeton University Press.
Jaeger, W. (1986) Paideia Volume II, Oxford University Press, chapter 2.
Nietzsche, F. (1968) The Birth of Tragedy (Kaufmann translation in Basic Writings of Nietzsche) New York: The Modern Library, sections 12-16.
Nietzsche, F. (1982) ‘Twilight of the Idols’ (Kaufmann translation in The Portable Nietzsche) New York: The Viking Press, pp 473-9.
Nussbaum, M. (1997) Cultivating Humanity, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, pp. 15-28.
Rorty, E.O. (1998) Philosophers on Education, London, Routledge, chapter 2.
Scott, G.A. (ed.) (2002) Does Socrates Have a Method? Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press.
Stone, I.F. (1988) The Trial of Socrates, London, Picador.
Taylor, C.C.W. (1998) Socrates, Oxford University Press.
Vlastos, G. (1991) Socrates; ironist and moral philosopher, Cambridge University Press.
Welbourne, M. (2001) Knowledge, Acumen, Bucks, chapters 1 and 2.
(Other books on Socrates are to be found at 183.2 in the library)
Week 3 Doubtful practice
Reading
Adorno, T.W. (1997) Dialectic of Enlightenment, London: Verso
Adorno, T.W. (1991) ‘Resignation’, in The Culture Industry, London, Routledge, ed. J. Bernstein, pp. 171-5 (also in Telos, 1978, vol. 35, pp 165-8).
Rose, G. (1999) Paradiso, London: Menard Press
Wider reading
Adorno
Adorno. T.W and Horkheimer, M. (1979) Dialectic of Enlightenment, London, Verso, pp. 237-240.
Adorno.T.W and Horkheimer, M. (1979) Dialectic of Enlightenment, London, Verso, pp. xi-xvii.
Adorno, T.W. (1973) Negative Dialectics, London, RKP, pp. 17-18, and 151-3.
Adorno (1967) Prisms, Massachusetts, MIT Press.
Adorno. T.W and Horkheimer, M. (1979) Dialectic of Enlightenment, London, Verso (pp. 120-167).
Adorno, T.W. (1991) ‘Why Philosophy,’ in David Ingram and Julie Simon-Ingram, (eds.) Critical Theory: The Essential Readings, New York, Paragon House.
Arato A and Gebhardt E (1978) The Essential Frankfurt School Reader, Oxford, Blackwell.
Bernstein, J. M. (1991) The Culture Industry, London, Routledge.
Benjamin, W. (1973) Illuminations, London, Fontana, ‘The Storyteller’.
Bottomore T (1984) The Frankfurt School, London, Tavistock.
Bronner S E and Kellner D M (1989) Critical Theory and Society, London, Routledge.
Brunkhorst, H. (1999) Adorno and Critical Theory, Cardiff, University of Wales, try chapter 2.
Habermas (1985) The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, Cambridge, Polity Press, chapter XI
Held D (1980) Introduction to Critical Theory, California, University of California Press.
Horkheimer (1947) Eclipse of Reason, New York, Continuum.
Horkheimer (1992) Critical Theory Selected Essays, , New York. Continuum.
Jarvis, S. (2002) Adorno, A Critical Introduction, Cambridge, Polity Press, pp. 52-71.
Lukacs (1963) Theory of the Novel, London, Martin Press.
Lukacs (1971) History and Class Consciousness, London, Martin Press, pp 83-110
Rose, G. (1978) The Melancholy Science, London, Macmillan, chapter 3.
Wiggershaus R (1994) The Frankfurt School, Cambridge, Polity
Rose
The first six essays in Women: a cultural review, Spring 1998, vol. 9, no. 1.
Lloyd, V. (2009) Law and Transcendence: On the Unfinished Project of Gillian Rose, Palgrave Macmillan
“Gillian Rose: Making Kierkegaard Difficult Again,” Kierkegaard’s Influence on Philosophy, volume 11 of Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources (2012
Rose, G. (1995) Love’s Work, London, Chatto and Windus, pp. 113-115.
Tubbs, N. (2000) ‘Mind the Gap: The Philosophy of Gillian Rose’, Thesis Eleven, no. 60.
Rose, G. (1996) Mourning Becomes the Law, Cambridge University Press, introduction and chapter 1.
(There aren’t as yet that many works available about Rose, but there is a full bibliography at http://www2.gsu.edu/~phlvwl/rose-bibliography.htm).
Shanks, A. (2008) Against Innocence: Gillian Rose’s Reception and Gift of Faith, London: SCM Press
Schick, K. (2012) Gillian Rose: ‘A Good Enough Justice’, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Williams, R. (2007)’ Between Politics and Metaphysics: Reflections in the Wake of Gillian Rose’ in Wrestling with Angels, London: SCM Press
Week 4 Authority – Augustine and Hegel and Rousseau
Reading
Butler, C. and Seiler, C. (1984) Hegel: The Letters, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 275-282
Augustine, (1942) Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil (De Ordine), New York: Cosmopolitan Science and Art Service Co., Inc, pp. 119-125.
Rousseau, (2000) Emile, London: Everyman, pp. 333-348.
Wider reading
Butler, C. and Seiler, C. (1984) Hegel: The Letters, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 275-282
Augustine, (1942) Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil (De Ordine), New York: Cosmopolitan Science and Art Service Co., Inc, pp. 119-125.
Rousseau, (2000) Emile, London: Everyman, pp. 333-348.
Further reading
George, M. and Vincent, A. (1986) The Philosophical Propaedeutic, Oxford: Blackwell, xiii-xxi.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1975) Shorter Logic, Oxford University Press, pp. 113-121.
Tubbs, N. (1996) ‘Hegel’s Educational Theory and Practice’, British Journal of Educational Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, pp 181-199.
Luqueer, F.L. (1967) Hegel as Educator, New York: AMS Press.
Mackenzie, M. (1909) Hegel’s Educational Theory and Practice, London: Swan Sonnenschein
Trifonas, P. (2000) ‘Jacques Derrida as a Philosopher of Education’, Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 32, no. 3, especially pp. 276-281.
Browning, G. (ed.) (1997) Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reappraisal, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, all of it, but chapter 12 if pushed for time!.
Harris, H.S. (1995) Hegel: Phenomenology and System, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co.
Hyppolite, J. (1974) Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, pp. 172-177.
Kojeve, A. (1969) Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 45-53.
Rose, G. (1996) Mourning Becomes the Law, Cambridge University Press, chapter 3.
Tubbs, N. (1997) Contradiction of Enlightenment; Hegel and the Broken Middle, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 218-228.
Marx, W. (1988) Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, University of Chicago Press.
Norman, R. (1976) Hegel’s Phenomenology, Sussex University Press.
Rockmore, T. (1992) Before and After Hegel, University of California Press, pp. 103-107.
Week 5
Reading
Rose, G. (2009) Hegel Contra Sociology, London: The Athlone Press
Wider reading
See Week 3
Week 6 Critical pedagogy
Reading
Althusser, L. (1984) Essays on Ideology, London, Verso, pp 14-31
Giroux H.A. (1994) Disturbing Pleasures London, Routledge, pp. 133-140, and 153-171.
McLaren, P. (1997) Revolutionary Multiculturalism, Colorado, Westview, pp. 13-14.
GurZe’ev, I. (1998) ‘Toward a Nonrepressive Critical Pedagogy,’ Educational Theory, Fall, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 463 and 483-486
GurZe’ev, I. (2010) The possibility/impossibility of a new critical language in education, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers
Wider Reading
Bourdieu, P. And Passeron, JC, (1977)Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture, London, Sage, see in particular pp. 108-114
Bowles, S.And Gintis, H. (1976) Schooling in Capitalist America, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Giroux, H. (1983) Theory and Resistance in Education, London, Heinemann.
Giroux, H. (1992) Border Crossings, New York, Routledge.
Gur-Ze’ev, I. (1998) ‘Toward a Nonrepressive Critical Pedagogy,’ Educational Theory, Fall, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 470-475 (see above, week 4).
Gur-Ze’ev, I. (2003) Destroying the Other’s Collective Memory, New York, Peter Lang, the Introduction.
GurZe’ev, I. (2005) Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy Today: toward a new critical language in education, Haifa, University of Haifa. These are recently published essays on the state of critical pedagogy at the moment.
Hill, D. and Cole, M. (2001) ‘Social Class’ in D. Hill and M. Cole, (eds.) Schooling and Equality: Fact, Concept and Policy, London: Kogan Page.
Kanpol, B. (1994) Critical Pedagogy, an introduction, Westport, Bergin and Garvey.
Marx, K. (1975) Early Writings, Harmondsworth, Penguin, in particular the Theses on Feuerbach
Marx, Preface to the Critique of Political Economy, pp. 3-5.
Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, pp. 70-79, (on alienation).
Marx, The German Ideology, pp. 172-3.
Marx, The German Ideology, pp. 192-3 (on revolution).
Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, pp. 82-85 (on communism).
(These references are all from the Tucker book called The Marx-Engels Reader. The full reference for this book is Tucker, R.C. (1978) The Marx-Engels Reader, London: W.W. Norton).
McLaren P. Note: there are 8 titles in the library for McLaren.
Masschelein, J. (1998) ‘How to Imagine Something Exterior to the System: Critical Education as Problematization’, Educational Theory, Fall, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 521-529.
Lather, P. (1998) ‘Critical Pedagogy and its Complicities: A Praxis of Stuck Places’, Educational Theory, Fall, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 487-497.
Lovlie, L. Mortensen, K.P. and Nordenbo, S.E. (2003) Educating Humanity, Bildung in Postmodernity, Oxford, Blackwell, especially chapter 5.
Luke, C. (1996) ‘Feminist Pedagogy Theory: Reflections on Power and Authority’, Educational Theory, Summer, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 283-302.
Peters, M. Lanshear, C. and Olssen, M. (eds.) (2003) Critical Theory and the Human Condition: Founders and Praxis, New York, Peter Lang.
Sarup, M. (1978) Marxism and Education, London, RKP, chapters 10 and 11
Sharp, R. (1980) Knowledge, Ideology and the Politics of Schooling, London, RKP.
Small, R, (2005) Marx and Education, Aldershot, Ashgate.
Trifonas, P. (2000) Revolutionary Pedagogies: cultural politics, instituting education and the discourse of theory, New York, RoutledgeFalmer.
Tubbs, N. (2008) Education in Hegel, London: Continuum
Tubbs, N. (2005) Philosophy of the Teacher, Oxford: Blackwell
Week 7 Buber’s Inclusive Teacher
Reading
Buber, M. ‘Dialogue’, pp. 17-47, but more importantly, pp. 109-131, both in Buber, M. (1979) Between Man and Man, London: Fount.
Buber, M. (1997) Israel and the World, New York: Syracuse University Press, pp. 149-50.
Buber, M. (1987) I and Thou, New York: Collier Books, pp. 3-17.
Wider reading
Buber, M. (1947) Between Man and Man, London: Fount.
Buber, M. (1963) Israel and the World, New York: Schocken Books.
Buber, M. (1987) I and Thou, New York: Macmillan Books.
Buber, M. (1998) The Knowledge of Man: selected essays, New York, Humanity Books, particularly the conversation between Buber and Carl Rogers, pp. 156-174.
McHenry, H.D. ‘Education as Encounter: Buber’s Pragmatic Ontology,’ Educational Studies, vol. 47, no. 3, Summer 1997, pp. 341-357.
Murphy, D. (1988) Martin Buber’s Philosophy of Education, Blackrock: Irish Academic Press.
Tubbs, N. (2005) Philosophy of the Teacher, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 111-120.
Also
Hodes, A. (1972) Encounter with Martin Buber,Harmondsworth: Penguin, chapter on ‘The Teacher’
Week 8 Jesus as educator (Tony Biondi)
Reading
The New Testament: The Gospel of Matthew 5-7, 21;
The Gospel of Luke 15
The Hebrew Bible: Exodus 19-21; Deuteronomy 5-6
Week 9 Weil’s Attentive Teacher
Reading
Miles, S. (1986) Simone Weil: an anthology, London: Virago, the
Introduction, pp. 16-35, 40-43.
Weil, S. (1977) ‘Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies With a View to the Love of God,’ in Waiting on God, London: Fount.
Weil, S. (1987) Gravity and Grace, London: Routledge, pp. 89-93 and 105-111
Wider reading
Bell, R.H. (1998) Simone Weil; the way of justice as compassion, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield.
Du Plessix Gray, F. (2001) Simone Weil, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Frost, C. and Bell-Metereau, (1998) Simone Weil: On Politics, Religion and Society, London: Sage.
McLellan, D. (1989) Simone Weil: Utopian Pessimist, Basingstoke: Macmillan.
McLellan, D. (1993) Unto Caesar: the political relevance of Christianity, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, chapter 2.
Miles, S. (1986) Simone Weil: An Anthology, London: Virago.
Tomlin, E.W.F, (1984) Simone Weil, Cambridge: Bowers and Bowers.
Tubbs, N. (2005) Philosophy of the Teacher, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 120-129.
Weil, S. (1977) Waiting on God: Letters and Essays, London: Fount.
Week 10 Teacher v Priest
Reading
Tubbs, N. (2005) Philosophy of the Teacher, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 9-11 & Chapter 6.
Tubbs, N. (2004) Philosophy’s Higher Education, Dordrecht: Kluwer
Williams, R. (2008) Dostoevsky, Language, Faith and Fiction
Williams, R. (2007) ‘Between Politics and Metaphysics: Reflections in the Wake of Gillian Rose’ in Wrestling with Angels, London: SCM Press
Williams, R. (2000) Lost Icons, London: Continuum
http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/pages/about-rowan-williams.html
Wider reading
Kierkegaard, S. (1965) The Last Years, Journals 1853-55 by Soren Kierkegaard, Collins
Tubbs, N. (2008) Education in Hegel, London: Continuum
Williams, R. (1994) Open to Judgement, London: Darton, Longman and Todd
Williams, R. (1990) The Wound of Knowledge, London: Darton, Longman and Todd
Williams, R. (2002) The Poems of Rowan Williams, Oxford: The Perpetua Press
Myers, B. (2012) Christ the Stranger, The Theology of Rowan Williams, London: Continuum
Russell, M. (ed) (2009) On Rowan Williams, Oregon: Cascade Books
Week 11 Heidegger’s spiritual teacher
Reading
Heidegger, M. ‘The Self-Assertion of the German University’, in Wolin, (1993), The Heidegger Controversy, MIT Press.
Heidegger, M (1993) ‘What Calls for Thinking,’ in Krell, D.F. Basic Writings, London: Routledge, pp. 378-381.
Farias, V. (1989) Heidegger and Nazism, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. 138-9, 144-7.
Wolin, R. (1993) The Heidegger Controversy, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, pp. 44-7.
Wider reading
Arendt, H. (1996) Love and St Augustine, Chicago; University of Chicago Press; see the essay at the end of the book written by the editors, pp. 178-184.
Bauman, Z. (1989) Modernity and the Holocaust, Cambridge; Polity Press
Derrida, J. (1989) Of Spirit, Chicago, Chicago University Press; this is Derrida’s interpretation of spirit in Heidegger.
Farias, V. (1989) Heidegger and Nazism, Philadelphia: Temple University Press
Heidegger, M. (1969) Identity and Difference, New York: Harper Torchbooks
Heidegger, M. (1992) Being and Time, Oxford: Blackwell
Heidegger, M. (1996) Basic Writings, London: Routledge
Hodge, J. (1995) Heidegger and Ethics, London: Routledge, try pages 192-3.
Marx, W. (1971) Heidegger and the Tradition, Evanston: Northwestern University Press
Nash, A. S. (1944) The University and the Modern World, New York: Macmillan, Chapter IV.
Ott, H. (1994) Martin Heidegger: A Political Life, London: Fontana
Peters, M, (ed.) (2002) Heidegger, Education and Modernity, Lanham, Rowman and Littlefield.
Rose, G. (1984) Dialectic of Nihilism, Oxford: Blackwell