Cultures of Erudition and Desire in University Pedagogy: Thoughts on Practice-led Curricula Before, Through, and Beyond Deleuze (Rethinking Education)

This book promotes adult education in a university setting as cultivation and the inculcation of culture, democracy, and ethics beyond and through lived experience. It draws on theories from across disciplines, bringing together Aristotelian and post-structuralist thought. This includes Fernando Pessoa’s notion of ‘erudition’ as culture and ‘disquiet’ as a mode of contemplative living, with Fernand Deligny’s ‘wanting’ as manifestation of life. Liana Psarologaki addresses the pathologies of life and higher education in advanced capitalist societies and creates a manifesto for a new type of university pedagogy. **Liana Psarologaki** is an architect, artist, educator, and creative scholar based in the UK. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Rethinking Education Introduction, or ‘for a 15%’ Notes Part 1 Tuber: Entering the Root “I Have Not Finished School” Playing Dostoyevsky’s Idiot: “But-why?” Ecosystemic Idiocracy An Illness of One’s Own A Tale of Viruses and Nerves Notes Part 2 Synapsis I: Aristotle, Pessoa, and the Missing Cultures: Erudition Scholē and Tedium The Impotent Scholar Desire to Defer? To Currere Notes Part 3 Synapsis II: Deligny and Deleuze; Post-Humanist Desires Post-Humanist Citizenship In-Between Democracy Desire Networks Utopian Currere Notes Part 4 Synapsis III: Maverick and Temperate; A People-In-Becoming The Vocation of Becoming Anthropos Ignorance and Disengagement Maverick and Temperate A People-in-Becoming Notes Part 5 Rhizome: Erudition in Times of Apnoea; Educating an Ill Generation Index "This book promotes adult education in a university setting as cultivation and the inculcation of culture, democracy, and ethics beyond and through lived experience. It draws on theories from across disciplines, bringing together Aristotelian and post-structuralist thought. This includes Fernando Pessoa's notion of 'erudition' as culture and 'disquiet' as a mode of contemplative living, with Fernand Deligny's 'wanting' as manifestation of life. Liana Psarologaki addresses the pathologies of life and higher education in advanced capitalist societies and creates a manifesto for a new type of university pedagogy"-- Provided by publisher