Open Secrets: Literature, Education, and Authority from J-J. Rousseau to J. M. Coetzee

by Michael Bell

Open Secrets reflects on contemporary humanistic pedagogy by examining the limits of the teachable in this domain. The Goethean motif of the open secret refers not to a revealed mystery but to an utterance that is not understood, the likely fate of any instruction based purely on authority. Revisiting the European Bildungsroman, it studies the pedagogical relationship from the point of view of the tutor or mentor figure rather than with the usual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199208093
• ISBN13: 9780199208098
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"