Poetics of Alterity (Paperback)

List of Figures vii

Foreword ix

Introduction 1

1 Poetics of the Encyclopaedia: Knowledge, Pedagogy, and Research Today 15

2 Thinking in Nearness: Seven Steps on the Way to a Heideggerian Approach to Education 43

3 From Heidegger to Translation and the Address of the Other 67

4 ‘Ethics is an Optics’: Ethical Practicality and the Exposure of Teaching 91

5 Covering the Wound: Education and the Work of Mourning 115

6 Problems of Knowledge: Reading a Poem, Reading the Immemorial 143

7 Wandering Words, Words in Faith: Speak You Too 179

References 215

Index 225