Dying to Teach: The Educator's Search for Immortality

by David J. Blacker

Teachers often speak of "living on" through their students, and students sometimes speak of a former teacher or teachings "living on" in them. What might teachers and learners mean when they say such things? Dying to Teach , by David J. Blacker, offers an answer to this question: The event of education provides a pathway to a kind of immortality that gives meaning and sustenance to teaching as a whole. From the Western tradition's very first theorizing about education (e.g., Plato and the Sophists) to contemporary postmodernism (e.g., Heidegger, Gadamer, Derrida), this book offers both an intellectual history and a sustained argument for the inescapability of education's immortality agenda.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807735922
• ISBN13: 9780807735923
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.