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6 - Hannah Arendt on the Very Possibility of Democratic Education

from Part One - Historical Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2023

By
Roland Reichenbach
Edited by
Julian Culp ,
Johannes Drerup  and
Douglas Yacek
Julian Culp
Affiliation:
The American University of Paris, France
Johannes Drerup
Affiliation:
Universität Dortmund
Douglas Yacek
Affiliation:
Universität Dortmund
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Summary

In this chapter, Hannah Arendt is characterized as a “pedagogue of the public realm” and, at the same time, as an antipode to John Dewey and his ideas of democracy and education. Arendt’s understanding of the political sphere – the so-called “political” – is illuminated and questioned in its proximity to political thoughts of Jacques Rancière. The elementary political dimension of education is asserted in line with, or even despite, Arendt’s insights and skepticism.

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Democratic educationpolitical educationmoral self-understandingpolitical theorypublic sphere
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The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education , pp. 74 - 89
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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