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ERIC Number: EJ1228716
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 13
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0160-7561
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Absolute Knowing: Žižek and Subject-as-Trauma
Oral, Sevket Benhur
Philosophical Studies in Education, v50 p127-139 2019
Education as a domain of conceptual activity and a field of scientific/scholarly research needs to address the movement from the traumatized subject to subject-as-trauma. This movement and the concomitant conceptual shift in how we ought to understand the subject correspond, in the domain of education, to the "radicalization" of what Gert Biesta identifies as the most essential function of education, that is, "subjectification," which is "the way in which educational processes and practices contribute to the emergence of human subjectivity or 'subject-ness.'" In the face of the difficulties to preserve the eventness of subjectivity, as a counterpoint to both Rancière and Biesta, the author attempts to expound Žižek's position regarding subjectification, according to which subjectification is both "necessary" and "impossible." An insight into subjectification as necessary and impossible constitutes what the author calls "absolute knowing."
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Language: English
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