Reconstructing a Learning Society

The Ideal of Self-cultivation and Dewey's Principle of Continuity

By (author) Quentin Landenne

Book cover: Reconstructing a Learning Society

Extent: 101, 101 pages

Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin

Subjects: Philosophy, Social Sciences 

Series: Philosophische Hefte

Series volume number: 15

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2021)

ISBN: 9783832554019

8.27 x 11.65 inches

Price: $23.00

In stock

What is a learning society? The idea that learning must become central for every social agent, throughout life and in every domain has aroused a great interest among scholars and public institutions. Since the late 1960s, it has been subject of a conceptual opposition between humanistic utopias of personal self-cultivation and managerial ideologies of individual adaptation. Beyond this opposition, John Dewey’s principle of educational continuity allows an original reconstruction of this idea.

  • By (author) Quentin Landenne