...Jeanette McVicker The classroom is arguably the space where all of William V. Spanos’s work intersects. Delivered always with a sense of urgency, his pedagogy seeks to disclose the violence of “disinterestedness” inhering in liberal humanism. By offering his undergraduate and graduate students...

...Matthew Charles T. J. Clark has described Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project as containing a politics that is “cryptic,” as if “being actively aired and developed elsewhere.” This essay seeks to uncover the buried foundations of such a politics in Benjamin’s early writings on pedagogy...

...Sami R. Khatib This essay elaborates on the dialectics of practice and play in Walter Benjamin’s pedagogical writings. Arguing that his earlier politics of “pure means” is still operative in his later materialist pedagogy of proletarian purposiveness, the essay follows Benjamin’s project of undoing...

...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...

...James Martel In “Critique of Violence,” Benjamin writes that the “educative power, which in its perfected form stands outside the law, is one of [divine violence’s] manifestations.” To recognize the connection Benjamin makes between a messianic power and acts of pedagogy allows us to revisit...

... “The Concept of Comparative Literature and the Theoretical Problems of Translation,” this essay explores topics for a new comparative literature: the theology of translation, translation and pedagogy, the right to untranslatability, and comparative literature as such as a translation problem. © 2010 by Duke...

... consciousness would be transformed. In keeping with the Dionysian fuel coursing through his pedagogy, it was a “maniacal” call (lecture 2) to burst the bonds of convention. pedagogy Hesiod Georgics poetry Jason Epstein NOB's was a pedagogy that proceeded by commands, scraps of paper, teasing...

...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...

... to the textuality of its languages and open to a rapidly transforming world. Apter gives a vivid sense of the scale of the task ahead if anything resembling change in practices of pedagogy and research programs is to emerge from her foray into the nebula of the Untranslatable. © 2014 by Duke University Press...

... of the relevance of Benjamin’s ideas on education to contemporary debates concerning pedagogy. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Walter Benjamin pedagogy school reform educational theory German Youth Movement References Benjamin Walter . 1989 . The Correspondence of Walter...

... existing political factions without assuming an attitude of neutrality. The fostering of this social-political consciousness is the task of the student body, conceived as a cultural avantgarde. Benjamin calls for a “new philosophical pedagogy” that would provide an arena for the confrontation of youth...

.... The article discusses two theaters: one in Honduras (Teatro Basura) and one in Vermont (Bread and Puppet Theater), both of which were greatly influenced by Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed , which stressed recycling, making do with what is at hand, and underlined the importance of local and native...

... in the following pages is the text of an address deliv- ered by Walter Benjamin at the First Student Pedagogic Conference, held at the University of Breslau on October 6 7, 1913. The text was published the following year in an edited volume of an educational series entitled Stu- dent and Pedagogy. At the time...

... Hernandez, Nathaniel Mackey, Joseph Donahue, and Dale Pendell. “Spiritual interpretation”—of poetics, pedagogy, and prophesy, of technology, embodiment, and chaos—proliferates. As a cooperative exploration among a certain assembled, the Brown conference could be considered an exercise in esoterica...

... in Miyoshi’s scholarship. My hope is that this preliminary consideration of pedagogical legacy thickens our sense of his commitments to foreground resources for future work. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 pedagogy discipline theory area studies Japan References Fujii...

..., Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Di Leo, Jeffrey R. On Anthologies: Politics and Pedagogy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Easthope, Antony, and Kate McGowan, eds. A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader. 2nd ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Edelman, Lee...

... ), considers how linguistic choices point to asymmetries in perceived political and economic power among social groups and records how speakers adjust their linguistic repertoires depending on whom they wish to be understood by—or don't wish to be understood by (Ahearn 2012 : 119–40). In pedagogy...

... Poetry in the Age of Media; Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary; and, most recently, Differ- entials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy. Her collection of essays, coedited with Craig Dworkin, The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound (2009), contains an essay...

... and Walt Whitman read as expository prose. Words- worth’s project was pedagogic—to change public taste (Lyrical Ballads, 742–45). There is not a word about pedagogy in Nussbaum’s text. Like many academic liberals, she imag- ines that everyone feels the same complicated pleasures from a Dickens text...

... is by no means complete and has no order of priority. Since I teach at Pittsburgh, in an English department once chaired for more than a decade by a leading figure in composition and pedagogy studies, I will begin my list of threats to criticism with rhetoric and composition, disciplines that became pedagogy...