Kant's conception of pedagogy
Subtitle: toward education for freedom
By: G. Felicitas Munzel
Series: Topics in historical philosophy
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780810128019
Subjects: Philosophy; Education; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Historic and philosophic context: eighteenth-century conceptions of education, Enlightenment, and human self-understanding; title: 1. The eighteenth-century as a pedagogical age; title: 2. Texts and movements: consequences of human self-understanding for conceptions of education; title: Part 2. Attempt at a pedagogical instauration; title: 3. Kant's idea of education; title: 4. Formal transcendental principles for education for inner freedom: condition for and critical counterpart to external freedom; title: 5. Toward material principles fulfilling formal conditions for education for freedom: philosophy as paideia and the liberal arts; title: Epilogue: relevance for today.