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The Ignorant Teacher: Five Lectures on Intellectual Liberation Author: [France] Jacques Rancière Publisher: Northwestern University Press
The Ignorant Teacher: Five Lectures on Intellectual Liberation Author: [France] Jacques Rancière Publisher: Northwestern University Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This book is the philosophical foundation of Rancière, the most influential contemporary French philosopher. The main ideas in it run through all his subsequent research. The book is written like a story, telling the extraordinary experience of a French teacher named Jacotot. Jacotot created his teaching method based on a traditional novel textbook. He started from the first sentence in the book and taught illiterate people how to read. The key is that the teacher himself does not impart specific knowledge, but encourages students to use their own cognitive abilities. The teacher only needs to "verify" whether the students have learned it. Therefore, this method can even be taught to poor fathers, so that they can teach their children to read and write and liberate their intelligence. This not only gave rise to an effective way to improve society, but also proposed a philosophy of equality.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Jacques Rancière (1940- ) is a French philosopher born in Algiers and a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. In his early years, he co-authored Reading Capital with his teacher Althusser, and later embarked on an independent path of thought, becoming one of the representatives of radical theory in France today. In recent years, he has written many books to explore the relationship between aesthetics and politics, including The Allegory of Cinema, The Liberated Audience, The Aesthetic Theory - A Series of Scenes in the Aesthetic System of Art, and The Lost Thread - Essays on Modern Fiction.
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