Showing and Doing: Wittgenstein as a Pedagogical Philosopher

by Michael A. Peters, Nicholas C. Burbules, Paul Smeyers

Overview

Three prominent Wittgenstein scholars introduce the broad educational significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work to a wider audience of educational researchers and practitioners through provocative, innovative, and playful readings of his work. They vividly demonstrate the influence of his thinking and its centrality to understanding our contemporary condition. Wittgenstein fundamentally shaped contemporary theories of language, representation, cognition, and learning. The book also traces the "pedagogical turn" of his thinking during the period from 1920 to 1926. What is most radical about Wittgenstein's later work is that it suggests learning and initiation into practices are fundamental to understanding his philosophy. The book not only provides a new and fresh interpretation of Wittgenstein's thought but also explores a new way of thinking about education as a way of revealing the educational dimension of philosophical problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594514487
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/30/2008
Series:	Interventions: Education, Philosophy, and Culture
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and coauthor of Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy (Peter Lang, 2009).

Nicholas Burbules is a Professor of Education at the University of Illinois"“Urbana-Champaign.

Paul Smeyers is Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.

Table of Contents

Introduction Showing and Doing: An Introduction, Nicholas C. Burbules, Michael A. Peters, Paul Smeyers; Chapter 1 Wittgenstein as Exile: A Philosophical Topography, Michael A. Peters; Chapter 2 “Perspicuous Representation,” Genealogy, and Interpretation, Paul Smeyers, Michael A. Peters; Chapter 3 Tractarian Pedagogies, Nicholas C. Burbules, Michael A. Peters; Chapter 4 Images and Pictures, Seeing and Imagining, Paul Smeyers; Chapter 5 Philosophy, Therapy, and Unlearning, Michael A. Peters; Chapter 6 Writing the Self: Wittgenstein, Confession, and Pedagogy, Michael A. Peters; Chapter 7 Wittgensteinian Pedagogies: Cavell on the Figure of the Child in the Investigations, Michael A. Peters; Chapter 8 The Practice of Ethics and Moral Education, Nicholas C. Burbules, Paul Smeyers; Chapter 9 Education as Initiation into Practices, Paul Smeyers, Nicholas C. Burbules; Chapter 10 Tacit Teaching, Nicholas C. Burbules; Chapter pos Postscript: The End of Philosophy?, Paul Smeyers, Nicholas C. Burbules;