NDLI: Revitalising Bildsamkeit?

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Author	Saeverot, Herner
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	In the book Forgotten Connections. On Culture and Upbringing, originally from 1983, the late German educator Klaus Mollenhauer interprets Johann Friedrich Herbart’s educational concept of Bildsamkeit, i.e., the ability and willingness to be educated. Furthermore, Mollenhauer conceives Bildsamkeit as growing out of a primitive state towards a cultivated life. The Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard, however, conceives the Christian concept of ‘primitiveness’ as a growing in the opposite direction, i.e., as a growing out of a cultivated state towards a primitive one, in which the self shall let itself be invented by ‘God’. Thus, I investigate whether the concept of primitiveness may enrich the reflection on the educational concept of Bildsamkeit, as it is conceived by Mollenhauer. Towards the end of the paper I turn to Emmanuel Levinas, whose ethical reading of the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud may reveal a weakness in Kierkegaard’s concept of primitiveness. But rather than rejecting the concept of primitiveness, I suggest that we re-consider the concept, with the help of Levinas’s transcendental perspective of ‘God’. Essentially, I try to address the following question: Can Bildsamkeit be something more than the ability to be educated? Can not Bildsamkeit also be defined as being susceptible to ‘God’, who transcends our existence, after which we are lead towards a teaching and education otherwise?
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	16
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00393746
Journal	Studies in Philosophy and Education
Volume Number	35
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	1573191X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-02-17
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Bildsamkeit Primitiveness Transcendence Teaching Mollenhauer Kierkegaard Levinas Educational Philosophy Philosophy of Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Education

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