Full Description
To think through history as it unfolds by engaging in "unbearable story-telling" is the task at hand in Curriculum Studies in the Age of Covid-19. The author documents stories of Covid-19 both from the perspective of a university professor and from the frontlines as a hospital chaplain, interweaving autobiography with philosophy, fiction, theology, history, and memory, in order to articulate what is beyond language and develop an archive. The archive is not only about the past but how future generations will understand the past. This book might be of interest to educationists, curriculum studies scholars, philosophers, theologians, literary scholars, historians, medical anthropologists, bioethicists, health humanities scholars, and hospital chaplains as well as palliative care physicians and psychoanalysts.
Contents
Introduction: Metaphors of the Desert: A Curriculum of Crisis - Clinical Narratives and Stultification - Speculative Fabulation and Unbearable Stories - Jacques Derrida's Concepts: Metaphors for Unbearable Stories - Thomas Merton's Crisis of The Unspeakable - The Unbearable Stories of Terry Tempest Williams, Joan Didion and Derrick Jensen - The Unbearable Stories of Anton Boisen, Louise DeSalvo and John Gunther - Albert Camus' Relevance for Unbearable Stories of the Covid Pandemic - Michel Serres' Relevance for Unbearable Stories of the Covid Pandemic - References - Index.
