Sren Kierkegaard: Educating for Authenticity [Paperback]

This book is a succinct guide to S?ren Kierkegaards contribution to educational thought. Kierkegaard is not usually known as an educational thinker, but the book shows how his key notions and ideas are nevertheless highly relevant to educational theory and practice. It places them within the context of Kierkegaards philosophy and the philosophy of his time, while also exploring their significance to issues of contemporary concern, like the question of how far education should aim at fostering useful skills or support more ambitious goals. The central topics are Kierkegaards diagnosis of the limitations of objective knowledge and his corresponding emphasis on know-how, personal appropriation and subjective attitude; his analysis of more or less successful forms of self-realization; his ideas about fostering personal development through indirect communication and dialogue; and the elements, strengths and shortcomings of the ideal of self-cultivation (German Bildung).?

Chapter 1: Existence and Education.- Chapter 2: Authenticity as Ideal and Idol.- Chapter 3: Self-Cultivation and Its Discontents.- Chapter 4: Dialogue and Indirect Communication.- Chapter 5: Needs and Dangers of Ambitious Educational Ideals.

This book is a succinct guide to S?ren Kierkegaards contribution to educational thought. Kierkegaard is not usually known as an educational thinker, but the book shows how his key notions and ideas are nevertheless highly relevant to educational theory and practice. It places them within the context of Kierkegaards philosophy and the philosophy of his time, while also exploring their significance to issues of contemporary concern, like the question of how far education should aim at fostering useful skills or support more ambitious goals. The central topics are Kierkegaards diagnosis of the limitations of objective knowledge and his corresponding emphasis on know-how, personal appropriation and sl³(