Intercultural discourse in the philosophy of education: Theoretical reflection between generality and singularities
Intercultural discourse in the philosophy of education: Theoretical reflection between generality and singularities

Author(s): Maria Kultaieva
Subject(s): Philosophy, Education
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: philosophy of education; intercultural discourse; theory; generality; singularities; epistemic cultures; communication; knowledge; post-industrialism; school
Summary/Abstract: Intercultural discourse within the philosophy of education is regarded as its self-reflectionin industrial and post-industrial cultural contexts, including their national specifi city. The distinctions between theoretical priorities of the philosophy of education in industrial and post-industrial societies are analyzed as founded either on the logic of generality or on the logic of singularities. The logic of singularities tends to dominate in post-industrial cultural conditions as the culture of the knowledge society and as an important element in its system of education. The theory of the society of singularities (A. Reckwitz) is verified through the analysis of the changes in the self-understanding of the philosophy of education, which is trying to adapt itself to new cultural and social challenges. The heritage of the Enlightenment is carefully preserved both in the continental European and in the American philosophical tradition with all their diversity and paradoxes of different epistemic cultures.

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