Hannah Arendt The Promise of Education

This book gathers some of Hannah Arendt’s core themes and focuses them on the question, ‘What is education for?’  For Arendt, as for Aristotle, education is the means whereby we achieve personal autonomy through the exercise of independent judgement,

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Jon Nixon Visiting Professor Middlesex University London, UK Honorary Professor The Education University of Hong Kong China

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