Søren Kierkegaard: Educating for Authenticity
In: SpringerBriefs in Education Ser.
Intro -- Contents -- 1 Existence and Education -- 1.1 Introduction: Why Kierkegaard Matters to Education -- 1.2 Kierkegaard's Life and Works: Between Aestheticism, Duty and Faith -- 1.3 Stages of Existence -- 1.4 The Limits of Systematic Knowledge -- 2 Authenticity as Ideal and Idol -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Becoming Oneself -- 2.3 Self-choice and Autonomy -- 2.4 Modes and Failures of Self-realization -- 2.5 Authenticity in Education -- 3 Self-Cultivation and Its Discontents -- 3.1 Introduction: The Classical Notion of Bildung -- 3.2 Kierkegaard and Bildung -- 4 Dialogue and Indirect Communication -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Challenges for Existential Education -- 4.3 Irony, Dialectics and Maieutics -- 4.4 Concepts and Practices of Indirect Communication -- 5 Needs and Dangers of Ambitious Educational Ideals -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Existential Education as Impractical or Elitist? -- 5.3 Against Education? -- 5.4 Conclusion -- References.