Bildung in the Anthropocene’, etheric imagination, world philosophy, and the futures of education

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This presentation is a first take on a couple of ideas and an incomplete work in progress, and I look forward to your comments. Depending on how things develop, it will be organized around three themes. I will briefly present education as a phenomenon involving thinking, feeling, will, various forms of knowledge and presence, memory, attention, discipline, and care. I might also touch on how the complementary dynamics between survival and meaning in various phenomena might inspire ‘self-transformation’ (Lefebvre reading of Bergson). Finally, I will come with a few remarks regarding how ‘Bildung’ relates to ‘images’ and ‘imagination.’ I will then reflect on a specific form of attentiveness, namely Matthew Segall’s idea of etheric imagination. Segall developed this concept (the phrase initially coined by Steiner) in his discussions of the concepts of ‘ether’ in the philosophies of Kant, Schelling, and Whitehead, the latter developing an ‘ether of events’ inspired by developments in non-Euclidean geometry and projective geometry. I hypothesize that it might be fruitful to reflect on this form of attention concerning the idea of Bildung in the Anthropocene. However, I also connect these reflections to intercultural and - perhaps - transcultural philosophies of education. I am especially interested in the role ‘world philosophy’ might play here, not only because of more abstract concerns regarding epistemic recognition but also more concretely by considering ‘homomorphic equivalences’ to ‘Bildung in the Anthropocene’ concerning an idea of various ‘Futures of Education.’

Periode	6 jan. 2022
Begivenhedstitel	BILDUNG, EDUCATION AND SUBJECT DIDACTICS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE EPOCH
Begivenhedstype	Konference
Placering	Karlstad, SverigeVis på kort