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portada Artful Education and the Downward Journey: Facing Finitude and Death
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Collection
Philosophies of Education in Art, Cinema, and Literature
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.4 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm
ISBN13
9781350470323

Artful Education and the Downward Journey: Facing Finitude and Death

Macallister, James; Arcilla, René V.; Pirrie, Anne (Author) · Bloomsbury Academic · Hardcover

Artful Education and the Downward Journey: Facing Finitude and Death - Macallister, James; Arcilla, René V.; Pirrie, Anne

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Synopsis "Artful Education and the Downward Journey: Facing Finitude and Death"

This book considers whether and how various philosophies, practices and artworks might help people face, and give new faces to, finitude. Formal education typically emphasizes the journey upward, with ascending and healthy aspects of life like growth and flourishing being common educational aims. However, life also involves downward journeys of illness, decay and death. Written by contributors based in the UK and Ireland, it explores the educational potential in a range of spiritual and social practices as well as from cinema and literature that engage with downward journeys. The chapters cover written works by E.M. Forster, Hume, Nietzsche, and Robert Louis Stevenson; films such as Des Hommes et Les Dieux and Arrival, Living and My Life Without Me; and social practices and rituals including football and the Japanese tea ceremony. They argue that some artworks frame or narrate descent in ways that can educate audiences and reveal the folly in beating wings only upward. Downward journeys show falling or failing and fear of the suffocating dark unknown; but they may also provide glimmers of light, hope and amusement. Education full of art and artistry can prepare us to rise and fall, and rise and fall again, not simply to solve or heal, but to be present to what finitude teaches.

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