Forces of Education: Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Pedagogy

Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nAbbreviations\nPreface: Pedagogy and Experience in Walter Benjamin\nEditors’ Introduction\nChronicle of Benjamin’s School and Student Years\nPart One Genealogies of Learning\n	1 Infans\n	2 Learning from Experience: Elements of Self-Criticism in Benjamin’s Work\n		From “The Life of Students” to “A Communist Pedagogy”\n		Learning from Experience\n		Conclusion\n	3 Leitmotif Siegfried\n	4 The Child in Benjamin: An Enduring Lesson\nPart Two Languages of Youth\n	5 Conversational Pedagogy in Benjamin and Nietzsche\n	6 Speaking Silence: Historical Subjectivity in Nietzsche and Benjamin\n		Youth: Self-Protest\n		Pedagogy: Earnest Irony\n		Language: A Rhetoric of Nonspeaking\n		Conclusion\n	7 Silence, Medium, Transmission: Benjamin’s Metaphysics of Language and Youth\n		Silence\n		Medium\n		Transmission\n	8 “In Voice Land”: Benjamin on Air\n		Radio\n		“Much Ado about Kasper”\n		Storytelling\n		The Possibility of Pedagogy\nPart Three Envisioning Pedagogical Futures\n	9 Unfulfilled Historical Time and the Self-Pedagogy of Critique\n	10 Against the Law: Youth and the Critical Pedagogy of Eternal Rebellion\n		School Reform and Lawless Youth\n		Freedom and the Force of Education\n		Improvisational and Revolutionary Pedagogy\n	11 Improvision\n	12 Walter Benjamin and the Anthropocene\n		1. Benjamin, Aura, and Anthropocene\n		2. Pedagogy and Time\n		3. Rhythmus\n		4. Aufb litzen (Flashing Up)\n		5. A Qualitative Leap into the Twenty-First Century\nContributors\nIndex