Sartre and the Phenomenology of Education: Education for Resistance

Sartre and the Phenomenology of Education: Education for Resistance offers phenomenological analyses of two primary orientations toward education, committed education and institutionalized education, which cultivate the imagination and produce a culture of collective imagining or perception and restricted, serialized imagining.

Format: Hardback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 30 October 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

Sartre and the Phenomenology of Education: Education for Resistance offers phenomenological analyses of two primary orientations toward education, exploring the role of education in shaping subjectivity. Cameron Bassiri develops a Sartrean approach to education, called "committed education," which aims to resist need, scarcity, the practico-inert, and their cultural manifestations. He argues that genuine education cultivates the imagination, instills the appropriate orientation to time in students, and produces a culture of collective imagining. In contrast, institutionalized education is a form of passive acceptance, assimilation, and oppression that cultivates perception while repressing or instrumentalizing the imagination, imposing an understanding of time on students, and producing a culture of perception and restricted, serialized imagining. Bassiri demonstrates the importance of education for the formation of subjectivity, highlighting the role of existential psychoanalysis in teaching and two distinct forms of the phenomenological reduction operative in the respective orientations toward education.

Weight: 531g
Dimension: 238 x 161 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666905175