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This article proceeds from a consideration of what John Baldacchino calls ‘viable ignorance’, attempting to take leave from the critical and pedagogical obligations of certain elements of Barbara Johnson's ‘positive ignorance’. It considers Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-François Lyotard and the composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen's reflections on modes of experience, and the cultivation of complementary dispositions, where the knowing, egocentric subject is transformed into, or undermined as, what Nietzsche calls ‘a medium of overpowering forces’. The disposition itself is outlined through close readings of (...) key elements of Nietzsche's notebooks, Lyotard's final chapter of Libidinal Economy (1993), and Stockhausen's lecture, ‘Intuitive Music’ (1971) and developed through supplemental practice-as-research activity in sound. The intention of this paper is to explore the space of aesthetic ignorance as committedly as possible, without reverting constantly to positive ignorance. (shrink)

This paper attempts to reintegrate the concept of plasticity into educational philosophy. Although John Dewey used the concept in Democracy and Education it has not generated much of a critical or practical legacy in educational thought. French philosopher, Catherine Malabou, is the first to think plasticity rigorously and seriously in a contemporary philosophical context and this paper outlines her thinking on it as well as considering its applicability to education. My argument is that her definition not only successfully reintroduces the (...) concept in a way which is generative for contemporary educational philosophy and practice but that it also significantly extends the remit of educational plasticity as previously conceived by Dewey. This paper will examine the concept of educational plasticity as providing an opportunity as well as ‘the feeling of a new responsibility’ towards the plastic subject in philosophical approaches to education. (shrink)

"En quoi Rousseau nous parle-t-il encore? Que peut-il nous dire, comment nous est-il possible de l'entendre et que retiendrons-nous de ses réflexions politiques? Rousseau (1712-1778), mort il y a trois siècles, développe une pensée politique qui donne une nouvelle orientation à la philosophie morale et politique. Sa philosophie, fondée sur le pacte social, est une stratégie pour la construction d'une véritable société politique moderne. Ce qui entre en jeu dans ce livre, ce n'est pas la simple connaissance des notions élaborées (...) par Rousseau, mais le mode de vie et de pensée qui en découle pour permettre à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la philosophie politique de se débarrasser des préjugés et accepter la vérité. L'auteur montre que le retour à Rousseau n'est pas un moyen de se détourner de l'essentiel contemporain. Bien au contraire, il rencontre des problèmes d'actualité, avec une approche qui permet de mieux cerner les problèmes politiques contemporains. Il est un prétexte grâce auquel chacun peut contester pacifiquement les règles, lois et comportements illicites pour le fondement d'une communauté politique véritablement démocratique ; et permet librement de se construire une vision politique humaniste pour répondre aux préoccupations concrètes des hommes et des États."--Page 4 of cover. (shrink)

Contre Platon et Aristote, c’est dans les corps que les stoïciens et les épicuriens veulent voir les seules réalités, ce qui agit et ce qui pâtit. Par une espèce de rythme, leur physique reproduit celle des physiciens antérieurs à Socrate. Ainsi les stoïciens rejettent, dans les incorporels, les non-être comme le lieu ou le temps.