Anxieties of Democracy and Education
Naoko Saito's American Philosophy in Translation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11951497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth Heilbronn (0000-0002-7075-2887, corresponding author), Adrian Skilbeck (0000-0002-0277-1277) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 631-644 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9752.12451 |
| OpenAlex | W3037368116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
The article is an essay on Naoko Saito's recently published book American Philosophy in Translation. We attempt to draw out the central argument of the book as it moves through its eight chapters. The author finds that American philosophy, which she takes to be rooted in pragmatism, whilst it owes much to Dewey, needs to be reconstructed in order to meet contemporary political challenges, with their implications for political education. She asks questions such as what is the place of the tragic sense of life in philosophical thought? What is a philosophy of affirmation and chance? How are we to understand the significance of the untranslatable? What are these connections between transcendence, translation and transformation? More specifically, how are we to understand the distinction between philosophy in translation and philosophy as translation? And how does all this offer us new ways of thinking about the current state of democracy, political education and education more generally? One specific suggestion is that an education in foreign language can be transformative in terms of political education. The article concludes that Saito's project throws up some important ideas that are pertinent to our times. We question the central idea regarding language education, whilst we welcome this scholarly volume
Argument (complex analysis · Democracy · Democratic Education · Epistemology · Higher education · Pedagogy · Philosophy of education · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Pragmatism · Social science · Sociology · Transcendence (philosophy · Transformative learning · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |