The “lengthy affair” of mytho-poetic education: Plato’s cave, Heidegger’s hermeneutics, and learning with(out) violence

• Authors: Jafe Arnold

Abstracts

EN

This article retrieves ancient and modern perspectives on the status and role of myth in education by revisiting Plato’s critique of myth in the light of recent scholarship and spotlighting Plato’s so-called “allegory of the cave,” particularly the latter’s (in)famous interpretation by Martin Heidegger. Reviving the question of myth in the philosophy of education through engaging Plato and Heidegger’s mythical elements, the paper provides a more extensive background to recent deliberations on mytho-poetic curriculum theory and the hermeneutics of education.

Keywords

EN

Plato; Plato's Cave; Myth; Heidegger; Hermeneutics; Education; Mytho-Poetic

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Chrześcijańskiej Akademii Teologicznej w Warszawie
• Journal: Studia z Teorii Wychowania
• Year: 2023
• Volume: XIV(2 (43))
• Pages: 237-254

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Jafe Arnold

• University of Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0053.9086

Biblioteka Nauki

36798569