TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blake,Nigel
TI  - Education in an age of nihilism
SN  - 0750710160
AV  - LB14.7 .E393 2000
U1  - 370.1 23
PY  - 2000///
CY  - London
PB  - RoutledgeFalmer
KW  - Education
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Standards
KW  - Moral education
KW  - Nihilism (Philosophy)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction --; Part 1; Working without values : --; 1; Education without risk --; Fragment I --; 2; Life skills, teaching skills --; 3; Choice, narrative and work --; Fragment II --; Fragment III --; 4; Education and the Last Man --; Fragment IV --; Fragment V --; Part 2; Overcoming nihilism : --; 5; Nihilism, Nietzsche and education --; 6; Our most holy duty: language and literacy --; 7; Apollo and Dionysos --; Fragment VI --; 8; Beyond pain and pleasure: affirmative ethics and integrity --; Part 3; Raising standards : --; 9; Solitude, silence, listening --; 10; The courage for immorality --; Fragment VII --; 11; On having educative relationships with one's pupils --; 12; Taking ignorance seriously. --; Fragment VII --; Fragment IX --; Reference --; Index
N2  - "This book addresses concerns about educational and moral standards in a world increasingly characterised by nihilism. On the one hand there is widespread anxiety that standards are falling; on the other, new machinery of accountability and inspection to show that they are not. The authors in this book state that we cannot avoid nihilism if we are simply laissez-faire about values, neither can we reduce them to standards of performance, nor must we return to traditional values. They state that we need to create a new set of values based on a critical assessment of contemporary practice in the light of a number of philosophical texts that address the question of nihilism, including the work of Nietzsche."--Publisher's website
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