ODPOWIEDZIALNOŚĆ DZIEJOWA W TEORII SERGIUSZA HESSENA
HISTORICAL RESPONSIBILITY IN SERGIUS HESSEN’S THEORY OF EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this essay is to interpret the Sergius Hessen’s theory of education in context of the concept of responsibility. The main thesis is that of vagueness and obscurity of the concept, going together with its essentiality for arts. Pedagogy is considered to be the field in which the very concept of responsibility gains its peculiar meaning. The assumption of the essay is that this concept implicitly underlies Hessen’s pedagogy, though as such is never mentioned. After a brief analysis two aspects of responsibility, crucial for education, are distinguished – responsibility for what is particular, for individual human being – on the one side, and the responsibility for the world as a whole, for culture – on the other. The matter of concern is the latter as less obvious, further called the historical responsibility (however, it is essential to understand that both aspects mentioned are two sides of the same process – just described from two different points of view). Reflection on historical responsibility focuses on Hessen’s theory of layers of reality, education (Bildung) and autonomy. The Author concludes the essay with a short reference to the crisis of culture and an assessment of Hessen’s thought in this context.

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