Existentialism and Education An Introduction to Otto Friedrich Bollnow /

• Main Author: Koerrenz, Ralf (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Friesen, Norm (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Existentialism.; Education > Philosophy.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.

This volume examines Otto Friedrich Bollnow’s philosophical approach to education, which brought Heidegger’s existentialism together with other theories of what it is to be “human.” This introduction to Bollnow's work begins with a summary of the theoretical influences that Bollnow synthesized,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. “What can we say with any certainty about human beings?”
• 2. From “Uncertainty” to “Deeper Understanding”
• 3. Between Lebensphilosophie and Existential Philosophy
• 4. Rationality of the Irrational
• 5. Educational Reality
• 6. Conclusions: Criticisms and Connections. .