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The existential crises involved in translation are part of our political life, especially in times when the closing of borders symbolized by Brexit and the triumph of Donald Trump, present new challenges to those living lives of immigrancy and those waiting at the borders. How to resist the emotive tide of populism and, in particular, the language that legitimates exclusion? How to confront the anxieties of inclusion? These challenges are increasingly pressing. The 2016 Conference of the International Network of Philosophers of Education sought to address such concerns through the theme 'Philosophy as translation and the understanding of other cultures'. The chapters included here represent the breadth and richness of that conference, addressing questions of ethics, desire, religious understanding, intercultural philosophy, and practices of higher education and teacher education. The processes of translation they discuss are not limited to linguistic translation as conventionally understood. Instead translation is taken to be a window through which to understand how we, as linguistic beings, are constantly in a process of transformation, and how our personal and cultural identities are, hence, also already involved in processes of translation. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethics & Education.
Contents
Introduction: philosophy as translation and the understanding of other cultures Acknowledgment 1. Better late than never: understanding Chinese philosophy and 'translating it' into the western academy 2. Translation on its own terms? Toward education for global culture 3. Inclusive education and Barrierefreiheit: some social-epistemological considerations 4. The difficult pursuit of truth: a response to Kai Horsthemke 5. Love and social justice in learning for sustainability 6. Beyond theory and practice: towards an ethics of translation 7. Translating desire (and frustration) 8. The hermeneutics of religious understanding in a postsecular age 9. The 'religion of the child': Korczak's road to radical humanism 10. Intercultural philosophy and education in a global society: philosophical divides are dotted lines 11. Refusal and disowning knowledge: re-thinking disengagement in higher education12. Is moral philosophy an educationally worthwhile activity? Toward a liberal democratic theory of teacher education
