..., by giving an account of what it was like for him as a person who had grown up in an orthodox Catholic family in America in the second half of the twentieth century to suddenly find himself, in reading Milton, to be living in a world where bitsiness was the rule. He had to learn to read things literally...

...Eli Friedlander The present essay lays out the central themes in Walter Benjamin’s account of fantasy and its place in the world of the child. It seeks to distinguish a learning from fantasy from what is often called learning from experience. Establishing this distinction leads me to develop...

... technology and the patients it would help treat, or the students it would help learn. References Abbott Andrew . 1988 . The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Aho Alfred V. 2011 . “ Computation and Computational...

...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2005 Learning from de Man: Looking Back Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak I find in the logic of parabasis a descriptive figure of action. This for me is the lesson of de Man. I ask the reader...

...Esther Leslie Throughout his life, Benjamin returned to questions of pedagogy and the ways in which children and adults come to know and learn. This essay explores his notion of Spielraum , or “playspace,” in relation to pedagogy. A pedagogy based on play is here explored in relation to three...

...Howard Eiland Walter Benjamin’s theory of education was first produced in conjunction with the theory of experience he developed in the years immediately preceding World War I, the period of his student activism. Integral to the discourse of both learning and experiencing in Benjamin is the idea...

... for expanding the realist novel’s scope? Do immigrant novels? And could the realist novel still learn from the genres against which it typically defines itself? Can it learn from science fiction novels, which, after all, have an easier time than most talking about planets? © 2013 by Duke University Press...

...Robert D. Richardson Abstract This review essay offers an enthusiastically positive review of Branka Arsić's Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau (2016). Arsić gives us a Thoreau who is a pondside Pythagoras, learned and disciplined, with roots deep in Greek and Ionian and Persian and Hindu...

... and cultural values. Out of this encounter was to issue the learning community, an individuated collectivity of study emancipated from the hierarchies and power relations characteristic of traditional academic institutions. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Walter Benjamin Gustav Wyneken...

...Élise Derroitte Modern pedagogy, as distinguished particularly from Enlightenment theories, is characterized by an effort to reconnect the content of education (what is taught) to the particular experience of individuals who learn. From Dilthey to Dewey, the notion of experience ( Erlebnis ) has...

... will be similarly transformed, thereby pointing the way to a radically new manner of pedagogical communication. By way of conclusion, Benjamin’s line of thinking is applied to recent debates on the use of online learning within the contemporary academy. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Walter...

...Jonathan Arac With reference to the author’s experience with English and other languages, this essay reflects on the problem of American monolingualism and explores modes of learned critical attention to the work language does in society, examining writing by Kenneth Burke, Raymond Williams, Erich...

...Palmar Álvarez-Blanco What do we learn when we study the historical connections between the political sphere—events that make headlines—and the politics of daily life? What role have self-managed communities of practice and their networks played in the socioeconomic, political, and cultural...

...Marie-Rose Logan In 1872, The Birth of Tragedy appeared and almost immediately gave rise to one of the greatest controversies and quarrels in the history of learning. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff attacked Nietzsche's book with savage irony and narrow professional objections. Nietzsche's...

..., transnationalization challenges the local responsibilities of universities as institutions of learning intimately connected with practices of citizenship. The curricular preference of foreign students for marketable subjects also intensifies pressures to reorient university education more closely to transnational...

... and inclusive conceptualization of the discipline. These efforts were perceived as threatening—and so were the advocates. This essay offers an account of their “diversity work,” which the author theorizes through Sara Ahmed's critical frameworks, in order to share the greatest lesson they learned: aside from...

..., and historiographical salience of the West. This review isolates seven features of Western history from The West 's narrative and analysis: a style of learning pioneered in ancient Greece; the importance of cities; an alternating series of political forms, including monarchy, democracy, republic, and empire; a tendency...

... of the vision of a community of learning after his much-­prolonged student days were over Thanks are due Margaret Havran of boundary 2 for her meticulous and resourceful guid- ance in the preparation of this issue for Duke University Press. boundary 2 45:2 (2018) DOI 10.1215/01903659-­4380970 © 2018...

... that the adult learns while taking part in the performance of the proletarian chil- dren’s theater. This reversal of roles gives rise to a new concept of peda- gogy based on experimental interplay and attentiveness for the new, the not yet seen. Everything was turned upside down; and just as in Rome...

.... This group cannot learn all the local languages, dia- lects, and idioms of the places where they provide help. They use local inter- preters. It is as if, in the field of class-formation through education, colo- nialism and the attendant territorial imperialism had combined these two imperatives—clinic...