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Pascal Sévérac
A Materialist Education
Thinking with Spinoza
Spinoza never wrote the ‘science of education’ he refers to in the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect. But I will argue that an ethical education can be deduced from his philosophy, which proposes a materialist education in the sense that it aims at a transformation of the affective sensibility of the body. Such an education should be understood as a re-education or counter-education, instead of what we ordinarily understand as education, which is a moral education.
Keywords: education – children; body and mind; affective sensibility; transformation; affect (psychology); child development; moral education; ethical education
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A Materialist Education
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Thinking with Spinoza
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| Author(s) |
Pascal Sévérac
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Spinoza never wrote the ‘science of education’ he refers to in the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect. But I will argue that an ethical education can be deduced from his philosophy, which proposes a materialist education in the sense that it aims at a transformation of the affective sensibility of the body. Such an education should be understood as a re-education or counter-education, instead of what we ordinarily understand as education, which is a moral education.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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2 March 2021
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| Subject |
education – children
body and mind
affective sensibility
transformation
affect (psychology)
child development
moral education
ethical education
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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181
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196
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| Source |
Materialism and Politics, ed. by Bernardo Bianchi, Emilie Filion-Donato, Marlon Miguel, and Ayşe Yuva, Cultural Inquiry, 20 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021), pp. 181–96
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- Ravaisson, Félix, La Philosophie en France au xixe siècle (1867) (Paris: Vrin Reprise, 1983)
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, The Collected Works of Spinoza, ed. and trans. by Edwin Curley, 2 vols (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985–2016)
- Zourabichvili, François, Le Conservatisme paradoxal de Spinoza. Enfance et royauté (Paris: PUF, 2002) <https://doi.org/10.3917/puf.zoura.2002.01>
Cite as:
Pascal Sévérac, ‘A Materialist Education: Thinking with Spinoza’, in Materialism and Politics, ed. by Bernardo Bianchi, Emilie Filion-Donato, Marlon Miguel, and Ayşe Yuva, Cultural Inquiry, 20 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021), pp. 181-96 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-20_10>