Quiet Desperation, Secret Melancholy: Polemos and Passion in Citizenship Education

Autor/in	Saito, Naoko
Titel	Quiet Desperation, Secret Melancholy: Polemos and Passion in Citizenship Education
Quelle	In: Ethics and Education, 6 (2011) 1, S.3-14 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1744-9642
Schlagwörter	Citizenship Education; Democracy; Citizen Participation; Political Attitudes; Motivation; Moral Values; Philosophy; Language Role + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Demokratie; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Philosophie
Abstract	Contemporary scenes of democracy and education exemplify a real scepticism about the point of political participation, and by implication about one's place in society in relation to others. What is called for is a recovery of desire "per se"--of people's desire to say what they "want" to say and their desire to participate in the creation of the public. In response, this article examines Stanley Cavell's "ordinary language philosophy." The way he reconstructs philosophy from the perspective of ordinary language provides us with an alternative route to citizenship. Cavell's philosophy is turned towards our existential need to recover political passion, the mainspring of a desire to think that affirms humanity as necessarily political. And in the end this existential need dovetails with the need of the "polis": that people speak in their own voice. That, I shall conclude, must be the basis of education for citizenship and political literacy. (Contains 5 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10