Practice Makes Perfect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6226552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samir Khatib (0000-0002-4949-5038, corresponding author), Sami R Khatib |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 63-86 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01903659-4381021 |
| OpenAlex | W2804001828 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
Research Article| May 01 2018 Practice Makes Perfect:On Undoing Bourgeois Pedagogy Sami R. Khatib Sami R. Khatib Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 63–86. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-4381021 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Sami R. Khatib; Practice Makes Perfect:On Undoing Bourgeois Pedagogy. boundary 2 1 May 2018; 45 (2): 63–86. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-4381021 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll Journalsboundary 2 Search Advanced Search This essay elaborates on the dialectics of practice and play in Walter Benjamin's pedagogical writings. Arguing that his earlier politics of "pure means" is still operative in his later materialist pedagogy of proletarian purposiveness, the essay follows Benjamin's project of undoing bourgeois pedagogy. Departing from the Kantian concept of pedagogy, already the younger Benjamin criticizes humanist teleologies of child education. Unraveling the aporias of bourgeois pedagogy, he takes hierarchical oppositions, such as civilization and nature, mind and body, teacher and student, mastery and servitude, intentional continuity and unintentional deviation, as his starting point to perform a dialectical reversal at the heart of these oppositions. This critico-destructive move makes room for new pedagogical constructions beyond the confines of bourgeois pedagogy. Drawing on his later anthropological-materialist concepts of gesture, practice, and mimesis, the essay concludes that, rather than developing completely new pedagogical concepts or setting new utopian goals, Benjamin radicalizes the impoverished life conditions of capitalist modernity and reduces pedagogy to a mimetic practice, which, nevertheless, demonstrates a radically new way of practicing. The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Immanuel Kant, pedagogy, materialist anthropology Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press2018 You do not currently have access to this content
Aesthetics · Bourgeoisie · Dialectic · Epistemology · Materialism · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Undoing · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |