Being in the present age

Roy, Kaustuv (2019) Being in the present age. In: Education and the ontological question : addressing a missing dimension. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 81-124. ISBN 9783030111779

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Abstract

The three noted thinkers selected for discussion here are Carl Gustave Jung, Emmanuel Levinas, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, all of whom were more or less contemporaries. These thinkers bring to ontology very different perspectives than those of conventional metaphysics. Equally versed in psychiatry, religion, metaphysics, the mystical traditions of the East and the West, and the human sciences in general, Jung was one of the most interesting and versatile thinkers of the twentieth century. From a pedagogic point of view, the lessons of his researches prepare the serious student for a brush with the archetypal currents whose intersectional nodes appear to us as the personality, and by means of which we regulate our relations with the what-is. Coming to Levinas, the philosopher Jacques Derrida once said that his work was an ethics of ethics. Levinas himself spoke of ethics as “first philosophy.” But it is precisely because he re-prioritizes and gives ethics a higher prominence than all other avenues of considering metaphysics that Levinas becomes important in the educational context. Finally, Merleau-Ponty was one of the most influential philosophers of post-war France. His later work influenced thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and others of the post-structuralist generation. The ontology of perception was the overwhelming concern of Merleau-Ponty’s work for which he used Husserlian phenomenology as his primary framework.

Item Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Roy, Kaustuv
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Social phenomenology, One-dimensional education, Curriculum theory, Affective ecology, Exegesis
Subjects:	Social sciences > Education
Divisions:	Azim Premji University > School of Education
Full Text Status:	Restricted
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/1825
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11178-6_3

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