The Dilemma of Western Philosophy (Educational Philosophy and Theory) - 9781138080614

This edited collection takes a multifaceted approach to the various limitations and achievements of Western philosophy. Considered on its own, Western philosophy is a highly contentious name that asks for troubling, and the contributors question its validity as a label and take to task its grand appearance within education. However, part of the problem with Western philosophy is that it has less conventional as well as dominant manifestations. The writers consider both forms of Western philosophy from various aspects, devoting significant thought and time to it in its own right but always referring it to the more specific issue of education. This book also adds to a growing corpus which sketches the relationship between education and philosophy, showing that they are both deeply intertwined, and it is indeed philosophy (and especially its Western variation) that supports Western education and allows it to flourish in the first instance. It is only fitting, then, that at various points this book depicts education as a hegemonic vehicle of a deeper phenomenon ? that of dominant Western philosophy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

• | Author: Michael A. Peters, Carl Mika
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 120 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138080616
• | ISBN-13: 9781138080614