Levinas

In Ann Chinnery, Nuraan Davids, Naomi Hodgson, Kai Horsthemke, Viktor Johansson, Dirk Willem Postma, Claudia W. Ruitenberg, Paul Smeyers, Christiane Thompson, Joris Vlieghe, Hanan Alexander, Joop Berding, Charles Bingham, Michael Bonnett, David Bridges, Malte Brinkmann, Brian A. Brown, Carsten Bünger, Nicholas C. Burbules, Rita Casale, M. Victoria Costa, Brian Coyne, Renato Huarte Cuéllar, Stefaan E. Cuypers, Johan Dahlbeck, Suzanne de Castell, Doret de Ruyter, Samantha Deane, Sarah J. DesRoches, Eduardo Duarte, Denise Egéa, Penny Enslin, Oren Ergas, Lynn Fendler, Sheron Fraser-Burgess, Norm Friesen, Amanda Fulford, Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, Stefan Herbrechter, Chris Higgins, Pádraig Hogan, Katariina Holma, Liz Jackson, Ronald B. Jacobson, Jennifer Jenson, Kerstin Jergus, Clarence W. Joldersma, Mark E. Jonas, Zdenko Kodelja, Wendy Kohli, Anna Kouppanou, Heikki A. Kovalainen, Lesley Le Grange, David Lewin, Tyson E. Lewis, Gerard Lum, Niclas Månsson, Christopher Martin & Jan Masschelein (eds.), International Handbook of Philosophy of Education. Springer Verlag. pp. 259-268 (2018)
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Abstract

This chapter explores the ways in which Emmanuel Levinas’s account of heteronomous subjectivity contributes to ongoing debates on autonomy as an educational aim. I first highlight some key points in Levinas’s scholarly life. I then sketch his account of heteronomous subjectivity and provide a brief overview of arguments for and against autonomy as an educational aim. In the last section I explore how Levinas’s work helps us see that while autonomy may be important for mitigating the risks of indoctrination and ethical servility, the current emphasis on cultivating autonomy as the hallmark of a liberal education risks fostering a kind of ethical blindness to the other, which, on a Levinasian view, marks an impoverished rather than flourishing human life.

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