Open Secrets: Literature, Education, and Authority from J-J. Rousseau to J. M. Coetzee

by Michael Bell

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Open Secrets reflects on contemporary humanistic pedagogy by examining the limits of the teachable in this domain. The Goethean motif of the open secret refers not to a revealed mystery but to an utterance that is not understood, the likely fate of any instruction based purely on authority. Revisiting the European Bildungsroman, it studies the pedagogical relationship from the point of view of the tutor or mentor figure rather than with the usual...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199208093

ISBN13:9780199208098

Release Date:July 2007

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.21 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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