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STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION
Volume 38, Issue 5, Pages 499-516Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11217-019-09665-0
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- Cornell University
- Department of Art Art History
- Center for the Studies of Modernism at The University of Texas at Austin
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This paper is part of a broader project in which I investigate autobiographical experiences and transcribed memories. Specifically, this essay analyzes the potential linkages between philosophical ideas and everyday social existence. First, I consider the correspondence between an anecdote from my own lived experience and the concept of Bildung-a multidimensional notion loosely translated as formation, self-formation, cultivation, self-cultivation, self-development, cultural process, and so on. Building on Hegel's and Gadamer's contributions to Bildungstheorie, I introduce readers to the concept. Then, in analyzing my anecdote, I destabilize the concept and demonstrate that any act of Bildung can be trivialized easily by Ruckbildung (reverse-Bildung). The general scope of this essay is neither to contribute to the systematization of the concept of Bildung nor to discuss potential commonalities within the realm of interpretative contributions to this notion. Instead, I demonstrate that thinkers cannot measure this concept with a set of fixed criteria and, finally, I propose a critical understanding of Bildung through a dialogue of theoria and praxis.
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