This book promotes adult education in a university setting as cultivation and the inculcation of culture, democracy, and ethics beyond and through lived experience. It draws on theories from across disciplines, bringing together Aristotelian and post-structuralist thought. This includes Fernando Pessoa’s notion of ‘erudition’ as culture and ‘disquiet’ as a mode of contemplative living, with Fernand Deligny’s ‘wanting’ as manifestation of life. Liana Psarologaki addresses the pathologies of life and higher education in advanced capitalist societies and creates a manifesto for a new type of university pedagogy.
Liana Psarologaki is an architect, artist, educator, and creative scholar based in the UK.
Author(s): Liana Psarologaki
Series: Rethinking Education
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 73
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Rethinking Education
Introduction, or ‘for a 15%’
Notes
Part 1 Tuber: Entering the Root
“I Have Not Finished School”
Playing Dostoyevsky’s Idiot: “But-why?”
Ecosystemic Idiocracy
An Illness of One’s Own
A Tale of Viruses and Nerves
Notes
Part 2 Synapsis I: Aristotle, Pessoa, and the Missing Cultures: Erudition
Scholē and Tedium
The Impotent Scholar
Desire to Defer?
To Currere
Notes
Part 3 Synapsis II: Deligny and Deleuze; Post-Humanist Desires
Post-Humanist Citizenship
In-Between Democracy
Desire Networks
Utopian Currere
Notes
Part 4 Synapsis III: Maverick and Temperate; A People-In-Becoming
The Vocation of Becoming Anthropos
Ignorance and Disengagement
Maverick and Temperate
A People-in-Becoming
Notes
Part 5 Rhizome: Erudition in Times of Apnoea; Educating an Ill Generation
Index
