Spinoza and Education: Freedom, understanding and empowerment

By Johan Dahlbeck

Book Overview

This book offers an educational reading of Spinoza's moral theory, setting up a critical dialogue between educational theory and recent studies which highlight the centrality of ethics in Spinoza's overall philosophy. By placing his work in a contemporary educational context, chapters explore a counterintuitive conception of education as an ethical project, aimed at overcoming the desire to seek short-term satisfaction and troubling the influential concept of the student as consumer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138610321
• ISBN13: 9781138610323
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"