Reading the history of education and curriculum thought through the crisis of modernity marked by the death of God, the disenchantment of the world, and the disintegration of the human subject, the author describes our current spiritual situation and its problems. Central is an examination of the contemporary critique of reason, its growing indictment as the source of present woes, particularly given that the heart of the West has been its relentless pursuit of reason and an unwavering faith in it as humanity's hope for achieving the good, the true, and the beautiful. The inquiry is made toward an understanding of the project of education, as the guardian of reason and the avenue through which human faith in reason is expressed, and the crisis in which this project, too, has culminated. The possibility is set forth of redeeming reason and reclaiming education as the upward journey of the soul in search of the good, the true, and the beautiful.
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Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-13
9780820441047
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96142246
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Subject Area
Experimental Psychology
Author
Molly Quinn
Publication Name
Going Out, Not Knowing Whither: Education, the Upward Journey, and the Faith of Reason