Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education
- The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Traditions in Ethics and Education
- Part II Ethics and Education in Practice
- Part III Emerging Ethical Pathways and Frameworks
- 28 Defining Moral Responsibility for School Leaders in Times of Democratic Crisis
- 29 Convivialism, Interdependence, and Education
- 30 New Existentialism
- 31 Antiracist Moral and Civic Education
- 32 A Decolonial Feminist Perspective
- 33 Ethics and Mindful Leadership in Education
- 34 Ethics as a Field Discipline in the Classroom
- 35 Centering an Environmental Ethic in Climate Crisis
- 36 Ethical Inquiry in Educational Research
- 37 Education and the Technological Horizon
- 38 Teaching in Credal Deep Pluralism
- 39 A Pragmatic Approach to Ethics in Education
- 40 Spectatorship, Black Bodies, and Urban Education
- Index
- References
30 - New Existentialism
from Part III - Emerging Ethical Pathways and Frameworks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2024
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education
- The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Traditions in Ethics and Education
- Part II Ethics and Education in Practice
- Part III Emerging Ethical Pathways and Frameworks
- 28 Defining Moral Responsibility for School Leaders in Times of Democratic Crisis
- 29 Convivialism, Interdependence, and Education
- 30 New Existentialism
- 31 Antiracist Moral and Civic Education
- 32 A Decolonial Feminist Perspective
- 33 Ethics and Mindful Leadership in Education
- 34 Ethics as a Field Discipline in the Classroom
- 35 Centering an Environmental Ethic in Climate Crisis
- 36 Ethical Inquiry in Educational Research
- 37 Education and the Technological Horizon
- 38 Teaching in Credal Deep Pluralism
- 39 A Pragmatic Approach to Ethics in Education
- 40 Spectatorship, Black Bodies, and Urban Education
- Index
- References
Summary
In this chapter the author provides a summary of Colin Wilson’s new existentialism as distinguished from historical existential philosophies. Wilson’s “Outsider” becomes a prototype for freedom, in a heroic and individualistic vein. Next, the author examines Wilson’s emphasis on self-preoccupation and consciousness as a symptom of existentialism in general. Using the work of important Black existentialists, the author offers a relational rather than an individualist interpretation of new existentialism. By being concerned with social justice, the chapter utilizes what are known as pedagogies of discomfort and calls for critical action. In the third section, the chapter presents Whitehead’s rhythms of learning and radical empiricism of “style” as an alternative to Wilson’s outsider, who advances a mistaken Husserlian interpretation of Whitehead’s philosophy. Whitehead, alternatively, holds that experience is richer than consciousness achieved and accrued. Finally, in the last section, the author offers new existentialism’s revolutionary vision for a new university.
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