Curricular and Architectural Encounters with W.G. Sebald: Unsettling Complacency, Reconstructing Subjectivity

This book explores the theme of unsettling complacency and confronts difficult knowledge around trauma, discrimination, and destruction through the writings of W.G. Sebald, mediated by perspectives drawn from curriculum and architecture. It encourages readers to stretch their understandings of currere and combines disciplines in a scholarly fashion to imagine a more just and aesthetically experienced world. It illuminates the pertinent lessons to be learned from the works of Sebald and provokes further investigations into the questions of memory, grief, and limits of language.

Format: Hardback
Length: 318 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This captivating book delves into the profound writings of W.G. Sebald, weaving together perspectives from curriculum and architecture to explore the unsettling theme of complacency and confront challenging knowledge surrounding trauma, discrimination, and destruction. By transcending overly instrumentalist and reductive approaches, the authors skillfully combine disciplines, fostering a scholarly exploration that encourages readers to expand their understanding of currere. The chapters serve as exemplars of crucial and timely conversations centered on ethical response and responsibility, aimed at envisioning a more just and aesthetically enriching world.

In the analysis of BILDUNG as human formation, the book sheds light on the valuable lessons to be drawn from Sebald's works and provokes further inquiries into the realms of memory, grief, and the limitations of language. Through its juxtaposition of curriculum and architecture, and utilizing Sebald's prose as a prism, the book revitalizes questions about education and ethics, probes the unsettling of complacency, and enables conversations around difficult knowledge and ethical responsibility. Moreover, it offers hope and resolve, serving as an essential intervention in traditional approaches to understanding currere.

This book holds immense significance for scholars and educators with interests in the history of education, curriculum architectural education, and practice studies, memory studies, narrative research, Sebaldian studies, and educational philosophy. It provides valuable context and insights into these fields, enriching the understanding of currere and its implications for a more equitable and enlightened society.

Weight: 790g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032299655