Poetics of Alterity (eBook)

SOYOUNG LEE is Assistant Professor of Education at Pusan National University, South Korea. She previously worked in primary education. Her main areas of scholarship are phenomenology, poststructuralism, and the philosophy of language, especially in relation to ethics, education in the arts and humanities, and teacher education. Her recent work explores themes of mourning and remembrance.

List of Figures vii

Foreword ix

Introduction 1

1 Poetics of the Encyclopaedia: Knowledge, Pedagogy, and Research Today 15

2 Thinking in Nearness: Seven Steps on the Way to a Heideggerian Approach to Education 43

3 From Heidegger to Translation and the Address of the Other 67

4 'Ethics is an Optics': Ethical Practicality and the Exposure of Teaching 91

5 Covering the Wound: Education and the Work of Mourning 115

6 Problems of Knowledge: Reading a Poem, Reading the Immemorial 143

7 Wandering Words, Words in Faith: Speak You Too 179

References 215

Index 225

'Lee's inspiring philosophy of education leads to the heart of philosophy: thinking otherwise. By way of remarkable readings of Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida, Lee finds in difficult poetic writing, particularly that of Celan, a resistance to the bureaucratic, capitalist understanding now suffocating education with its fixation on measurable success. In the resistance of the un-understandable, Lee discovers new hope for our lives and for our lives with others: an education in alterity.'
Gordon C.F. Bearn, Clara H. Stewardson Professor of Philosophy, Lehigh University

'Lee's inspiring philosophy of education leads to the heart of philosophy: thinking otherwise. By way of remarkable readings of Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida, Lee finds in difficult poetic writing, particularly that of Celan, a resistance to the bureaucratic, capitalist understanding now suffocating education with its fixation on measurable success. In the resistance of the un-understandable, Lee discovers new hope for our lives and for our lives with others: an education in alterity.'
Gordon C.F. Bearn, Clara H. Stewardson Professor of Philosophy, Lehigh University