The Teacher as an Authority
Between Heracles and Gregor Samsa
Keywords:
Latour, Kafka, Heracles, myths, authority, romanticism, education, philosophy of educationAbstract
This study analyses two models of authority in the perspective of philosophy of education – one associated with the Herculean myth and its romantic re-reading, and the other with Latour’s interpretation of Gregor Samsa concerning teaching. The study analyses two models of authority and attempts to point out a particular crisis in the understanding of authority in the context of critical perceptions of modernity.
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