London Branch Seminar

Retuning education: Bildung and exemplarity beyond the logic of progress
Morten Timmermann Korsgaard (Malmö University)

5.30pm-7pm (BST)   

While the ideals of economic and personal progress and growth are slowly destroying the planet we inhabit and its inhabitants along with it, education – often seen as the solution to this problem – is slowly being suffocated by the very same ideals. I argue that in order to move beyond this destructive logic, we must rethink, or retune if you will, the concepts of Bildung and exemplarity in a way that moves beyond both classical definitions of these and the logic of progress which has hitherto determined their usage.

Morten Timmermann Korsgaard is Associate Professor of Education at the Department of Childhood, Education and Society, and part of the research group Philosophical Studies in Education (PSE). His research is focused on the Philosophy of Education, Educational Theory and History, and the work of Hannah Arendt. 

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