Ethics, Aesthetics, and Education: A Levinasian Approach

by Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones

Overview

This book explores Levinas’ phenomenology of ethical motivation. Levinas is grounded in “radical alterity”, the knowledge that ethics exists only when we are fully separate from someone else, allowing us to experience connection with one another. In this book, the author locates this ethics in embodiment, emotions, and imaginations and explores the intersection of aesthetics and education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137556066
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	08/25/2016
Series:	The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	119
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Donald S. Blumenfeld-Jones specializes in aesthetics, curriculum theory, arts-based education research, and ethics. He founded ARTs (Arts-based Reflective Teaching), an elementary education teacher preparation program dedicated to aestheticizing the curriculum and making ethics central to both curriculum planning and teaching.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Levinas’ Ethics: a story relation, and radical alterity.- Chapter 2: Aesthetics, Body, and Ethics.- Chapter 3 Levinas in the Classroom: Working toward Ethical Consciousness.