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A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education
The Play of the In-Between
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2020
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A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between explores the ways in which both play and poetry orient us toward what surpasses us. Catherine Homan develops an original account of poetic education that builds on Friedrich Hölderlin’s idea of poetry as a teacher of humanity. Whereas aesthetic education emphasizes judgments of taste and rational autonomy, poetic education foregrounds self-formation and openness to the other. Critically engaging the works of Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Paul Celan, this book argues that poetry and play call for a particular stance in the world and with others. Open toward the infinite while simultaneously reaching toward its own finitude, the poetic work addresses us and invites our response. Poetry reveals the human condition as “in-between” and dialogical, even at the limits of language. Although many philosophers mistakenly view play as frivolous, Homan takes play seriously. Play--spontaneous and creative--resists mastery and instead requires an active attunement to the to-and-fro movement of the world, of others, and ourselves. A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education demonstrates that poetic education, as learning to listen, provides vital resources for responding to alterity in meaningful ways that resist totalization.
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Edition
1/2020
Copyright Year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-9444-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-9445-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
204
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Abbreviations No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter 1 Aesthetic Education and the Roots of Poetic Education No access Pages 21 - 58
Chapter 2 Poetry as Teacher of Humanity No access Pages 59 - 94
Chapter 3 Play, Paidia, and Paideia No access Pages 95 - 128
Chapter 4 Becoming Who We Are No access Pages 129 - 164
