A Fierce Little Tragedy

Thought, Passion, and Self-Formation in the Philosophy Classroom
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-420-1147-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 147, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 255 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy of Education

The book explores, in novel form, what can happen to us, whether professor or student, as a result of the philosophical classroom. The approach is to consider the classroom as a unique happening of philosophy, different than reporting theories or doing research, through which a distinctive mode of philosophical formation can occur.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stark, Herman

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by George David Miller
Preface
Acknowledgments
ONE A Philosophical Lenocinium
TWO Let Your Reason Serve To Make Truth Appear
THREE I Like To Listen To The Way You Speak
FOUR Virtuously Vulnerable
FIVE Was It Platonic?
SIX Tit–À–Tit
SEVEN Under The Egoism Beneath The Skin
EIGHT Form Precedes Content, And Lingers
NINE Philosophical Laughter
TEN Fine Hands And The Futures Market
ELEVEN Masses Masticating At The Movies
TWELVE When The Giver Proves Unkind
THIRTEEN Poor Geppetto, Alone In The Ghetto
FOURTEEN Never Again Pretend To Understand
FIFTEEN Look Homeward, Angel
SIXTEEN Psychoanalyzing The Stuffing Out
SEVENTEEN The Zhivago Of Chicago
EIGHTEEN Amazing Grace?
EPILOGUE
1. Philosophy as Wonder
2. Philosophical Asking
3. Metaphysical Wonder
4. Philosophical Thinking as Asking
5. Asking Plato
6. Questions and the Value of Philosophy
7. Heidegger and “Being–a–self”
8. The Asking Mystery
9. Conclusion

Works Cited
About The Author
Index