An Odd Coupling
Nietzsche and W.E.B. Du Bois on 21st Century Philosophy of Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10801557 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles C Verharen (0000-0003-1855-2279, Howard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 211-225 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Philosophy and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-3746 • E-ISSN: 1573-191X |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11217-021-09799-0 |
| OpenAlex | W3202898605 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
This essay contrasts Nietzsche’s remarks on elite education with W.E.B. Du Bois’ demand for democratized education. The essay takes their remarks as springboards for a twenty-first century philosophy of education rather than an historical account of their philosophies. Both thinkers cultivated Kant and Hegel’s dream that the spirit of freedom guided by reason would unite all the world’s peoples. Both held that education was key to realizing the dream. Their judgments about qualifying for education separated them. Nietzsche insisted that only the elite should receive the fullest measure of education. Du Bois believed that in the future virtually every human being would receive a university-level education. The essay’s principal point is to show how contemporary technology can make Du Bois’ dream a reality. An African philosopher’s working model demonstrates a path to universal university education
Dream · Elite · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Higher education · Liberal education · Philosophy of education · Political science · Sociology · Education, Literature, Philosophy Research · Law · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophy · Postmodernism in Literature and Education · Psychology · Religious studies
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A Perfect Moral Storm
Reason in a Dark Time
Nietzsche, Nature, Nurture
The Collected Dialogues of Plato
From The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy
Nietzsche's Anti-Darwinism
Nietzsche's Metaethics
Nietzsche's New Darwinism
The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois
The Greek State
The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition
The future of ethics and education
Efficiency Versus Enjoyment
African Environmental Ethics
Nietzsche's Orientation toward the Future
Dusk of Dawn. An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept
Human, all too human
Nietzsche on truth and philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |