This book grapples with what it means when education and democracy are at an end: when these two foundational aspects of our society seem to have reached a culminating point, no longer appearing to produce and make sense amid the crises of our time. Engaging topical political events and mobilizing a variety of cultural resources, Di Paolantonio shows that today the possibility of the future and the significance of an expansive transgenerational sensibility are radically in question as trends toward destruction, cruelty, and banality are steering world-defying calamities, and sparking chronopathologies of doom and despair among the planet's occupants. Unfolding his argument through a series of accessible chapters that draw on contemporary philosophy, educational thinking, and cultural-artistic works, Di Paolantonio explores how the transgenerational sensibility retains a possibility we might tap for overcoming the impasses of our time.

Presents innovative ways of engaging critical political and planetary issues impacting democracy and education Centers the concept of chronopathologies unleashed by the neoliberal tempo and logic of catastrophism Draws on aesthetics and art to engage pedagogical interventions that attempt to re-sensitize our imagination

Autorentext

Mario Di Paolantonio is Associate Professor at York University, Canada. His extensive publications span across the fields of philosophy of education, social and political thought, cultural memory and the arts.

Klappentext

1. Introduction.- 2. What Sense for Democracy?.- 3. Thinking in Destitute Times.- 4. The Foreclosing of the Transgenerational Sense of Education.- 5. "Passing On" and the Heritage of Democracy-to-Come.- 6. The End of Democracy-to-Come: Predictability, Denial, and Reckoning with Historical Agnosia.- 7. Withdrawal: Re-figuring Sense for the Future Through José Saramago's Seeing and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being.

   Inhalt

   1. Introduction.- 2. What Sense for Democracy?.- 3. Thinking in Destitute Times.- 4. The Foreclosing of the Transgenerational Sense of Education.- 5. Passing On and the Heritage of Democracy-to-Come.- 6. The End of Democracy-to-Come: Predictability, Denial, and Reckoning with Historical Agnosia .- 7. Withdrawal: Re-figuring Sense for the Future Through José Saramago's Seeing and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being .