The book examines the trajectory of joint philosophical-pedagogical concepts within the framework of the dialogue between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, put in the context of questions concerning the nature of modernity.

• Cover
• Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger
• Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger: Philosophy, Modernity, and Education
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
  • I.
  • II.
  • III.
  • Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Philosophical Tradition and Education
  • Note
  • Chapter 1
    • The Paideia of Plato’s Cave
      • Heidegger: The Ontological Interpretation of Plato’s Cave
      • Arendt: The Political Interpretation of Plato’s Cave
      • Gateway: Paideia is not Bildung
      • Notes
  • Chapter 2
    • The German Idea of Bildung
      • Humboldt: Idealism—Neohumanism—Liberalism
      • Humboldt: The Idea of University
      • Arendt: Bildung and Assimilation
      • Concluding Remarks
      • Notes
  • Chapter 3
    • Authenticity
      • Contexts
      • The Pedagogical Dimension of Being and Time
      • Being and Time as Political Philosophy?
      • Notes
• Part II: Philosophy and Education at a Crossroads
  • Note
  • Chapter 4
    • The Broken Thread of Tradition and Heidegger’s Breaks
      • Heidegger Estranged From His Own Thought
      • Tradition Defeated: Heidegger Breaks with Plato and the Idea of University
      • Arendt: Thinking Through the Break
      • Concluding Remarks
      • Notes
  • Chapter 5
    • Reading Aristotle
      • Heidegger’s Aristotle
      • Arendt’s Aristotle
      • Aristotle: Plato’s Most Genuine Disciple57
      • Notes
  • Chapter 6
    • Freedom and the World
      • Heidegger’s World Versus Descartes
      • Arendt’s Doubled World
      • Arendt’s Reluctant Modernism and the Question of Freedom
      • Notes
• Part III: The Pedagogical Promise of Philosophy
  • Chapter 7
    • “The Educational Principle”
      • “What” and “Who”: the Difference between The Human Condition and Human Nature
      • Herder and “The Educational Principle”
      • Understanding the Power of Precedence: Arendt, Foucault, Agamben
      • Concluding Remarks
      • Notes
  • Chapter 8
    • The Promise of Thinking
      • The Scandal of Non-thinking
      • What Is Called Thinking?
      • University between Past and Future
      • Notes
• Afterword
  • I.
  • II.
  • III.
  • Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author