Second Nature: Adorno and Contemporary Education

The paper aims to provide a conceptual basis for reconciling the radical resistance to totality posed by Adorno’s negative dialectics with contemporary considerations of the environment, capable of developing a more symbiotic educational approach in the context of contemporary crises. This is done...

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Main Author: Edvardas Šumila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius University Press 2025-01-01
Series:Acta Paedagogica Vilnensia
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Online Access:https://www.journals.vu.lt/acta-paedagogica-vilnensia/article/view/37723
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Summary:The paper aims to provide a conceptual basis for reconciling the radical resistance to totality posed by Adorno’s negative dialectics with contemporary considerations of the environment, capable of developing a more symbiotic educational approach in the context of contemporary crises. This is done by exploring the notion of ‘second nature’, the significance of which is underlined by its rootedness in the dialectical tradition of German philosophy and Adorno’s emphasis on the nonidentical as an essential condition for critique and a link between subjectivity and what is understood as nature and history.
ISSN:1392-5016
1648-665X