Education and Democracy at The End

lt;b>Mario Di Paolantonio is Associate Professor at York University, Canada. His work draws on ethical philosophy, cultural memory, and democratic theory to study memorial, aesthetic, and political "forums" attempting to pedagogically reckon with historical-political wrongs in transitional democracies. He has taught and lectured internationally and has received numerous funded awards for his research along with being twice the recipient of the York University Research Leader Award. His extensive publications span across the fields of philosophy of education, social and political thought, cultural memory and the arts.

1. Introduction.- 2. What Sense for Democracy?.- 3. Thinking in Destitute Times.- 4. The Foreclosing of the Transgenerational Sense of Education.- 5. "Passing On" and the Heritage of Democracy-to-Come.- 6. The End of Democracy-to-Come: Predictability, Denial, and Reckoning with Historical Agnosia.- 7. Withdrawal: Re-figuring Sense for the Future Through José Saramago's Seeing and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being.