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- Title
- Learning from experience: Dewey, Deleuze, and "becoming-child"
- Author/Creator
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Semetsky, Inna
- Description
- The structure of this chapter is twofold. The power of "stories lives tell" (Witherell and Noddings 1991) cannot be underestimated, and first I will present an excerpt from the semiautobiographical short story written by a Russian-Jewish émigré to Israel, Julia Schmookler. In 1975 the Russian-language edition appeared in print in Israel, and I took the liberty of translating a part of it into English for the purpose of inclusion in this chapter. Second, I will focus on the notion of percept as described by Gilles Deleuze and will connect it with Dewey's account of a qualitative whole. Percept, which has been related by Deleuze to Spinoza-type singularity, allows a lesson in becoming, specifically, as Deleuze called it, becoming-child. I will conclude by suggesting that if, as Dewey said, spirit informs, then a little girl - the story's protagonist - has received, without any direct or explicit instruction, a lesson of vital education that is, according to Deleuze, an immanent mode of existence, and one "created vitally ... through the forces it is able to harness" (Deleuze 1997: 135).
- Relation
- Spirituality and Ethics in Education: Philosophical, Theological and Radical Perspectives p. 54-64
- Relation
- http://www.sussex-academic.com/sa/titles/theology_religion/alexanderethics.htm
- Date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Keyword(s)
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percept;
Gilles Deleuze;
John Dewey;
becoming-child;
philosophy
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803258
- Language
- eng
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