Hans-Georg Gadamer The Hermeneutical Imagination /

• Main Author: Nixon, Jon (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Education,
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Education > Philosophy.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.

This book provides an introduction to Hans-Georg Gadamer’s thinking and shows how it might inform our own thinking about education as a lifelong process of engaging with one another and with the wider world. He insisted on the supreme importance of prior learning, but also on the unpredictability of...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• About the author
• 1. An examined life
• 2. The acknowledged self
• 3. Mutual understanding
• 4. Beyond method
• 5. Educational imaginaries
• References
• Index.