Educating Humanity: Bildung in Postmodernity

Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: Bildung and the idea of a liberal education: Lars Lovlie and Paul Standish. 2. Bildung and the Thinking of Bildung: Sven Erik Nordenbo. 3. The Idea of a Universal Theory of Education -- an Impossible but Necessary Project?: Michael Uljens. 4. How General Can Bildung Be? Reflections on the Future of a Modern Education Ideal: Gery Biesta. 5. Bildung and Critical Theory in the Face of Postmodern Education: Ilan Gur--Zea ev. 6. On Irritation and Transformation: A--teleological Bildung and its Significance for the Democratic Form of Living: Roland Reichenbach. 7. Beyond the Present State of Affairs: Bildung and the Search for Orientation in Rapidly Transforming Societies: Halmut Peukert. 8. The Double Call: on Bildung in a literary and reflective perspective: Klaus Peter Mortensen. 9. Modernising Media or Modernist Medium? The Struggle for Liberal Oearning in Our Information Age: Rene V. Arcilla. 10. The Promise of Bildung: Lars Lovlie. 11. Illusion -- How Friedrich Schiller Can Cast Light on Bildung: Hansjorg Hohr. Bibliography. Index.