Existentialism and Education An Introduction to Otto Friedrich Bolln
This volume examines Otto Friedrich Bollnow’s philosophical approach to education, which brought Heidegger’s existentialism together with other theories of what it is to be “human.” This introduction to Bollnow's work begins with a summary of the theoreti
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Ralf Koerrenz
Existentialism and Education An Introduction to Otto Friedrich Bollnow Edited, with a foreword by co-translator Norm Friesen
Ralf Koerrenz Institut für Bildung und Kultur Universität Jena Institut für Bildung und Kultur Jena, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-48636-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-48637-6
ISBN 978-3-319-48637-6 (eBook)
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EDITOR & CO-TRANSLATOR’S FOREWORD
As this book’s editor and co-translator, this foreword provides me with two valuable opportunities: to contextualize my own interest in and appreciation of the work of Otto Friedrich Bollnow, and also to locate his thought in what I hope will be a familiar conceptual context. I thus begin by discussing Bollnow’s work in terms of my own academic research and experience. I then point out some of the more academic, conceptual aspects that connect Bollnow to important but perhaps less familiar intellectual traditions in the human sciences (Geisteswissenschaften)—including the tradition of philosophical “anthropology” central to this book’s discussion. I conclude with a brief overview of the book’s chapters and its principle themes. Otto Friedrich Bollnow and his approach to “educational realities” first became familiar to me through the work of my doctoral supervisor, Max van Manen, who translated one of Bollnow’s key texts, The Pedagogical Atmosphere (1968/1989). In this text, Bollnow describes the pedagogical a
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