Education and Philosophy

Introduction Philosophical Schools Ancient 'Solutions' Education and God Education and Humanism Enlightenment and Modernity: Descartes and Locke Enlightenment and Modernity: Hume and Kant Modernity and its Problems Modernity and the Figure of 'Man' Critique, Emancipation and Education Education and Government Confined to the Present Epilogue

"Education and Philosophy" accomplishes a rare feat. It provides a lucid, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the long traditions of education and philosophy and their co-implication, as well as to philosophy of education. An exciting and provocative reading of education and philosophy, it offers a diagnosis of our contemporary educational ills, arguing that the current state of education is a symptom of the crisis of modernity, whilst refusing a nostalgic return to the past. This book constitutes a major contribution both to philosophy of education and to philosophy, which so often today forgets its intimate relationship with education. -- Aislinn O'Donnell Whilst Allen and Goddard take educational and philosophical ideas from the past and present and make them feel satisfyingly like our own, their genius is in making us uncomfortable about how easily such ideas satisfy us. Education and Philosophy should be praised as a rare and necessary act of educational insubordination. -- Maurizio Toscano Comprising an outstanding reach and depth of scholarship, original and provocative insights, and a writing style that deals with its necessary complexities clearly without ever becoming unnecessarily complicated, there is little else like this book. -- Emile Bojesen * Educational Philosophy and Theory *