"Education as the art of making oneself at home in the world with and through others" : the call to Bildung in Meister Eckhart and the film Of Gods and Men
Frimberger, Katja (2024) "Education as the art of making oneself at home in the world with and through others" : the call to Bildung in Meister Eckhart and the film Of Gods and Men. Studies in Philosophy and Education. ISSN 0039-3746 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-024-09947-2)
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Abstract
This paper explores the mystical structure of education as Bildung in medieval theologian and Dominican friar Meister Eckhart’s work and the 2010 French film Of Gods and Men (Des Hommes et Des Dieux). I start this paper with a short introductory sketch of the Bildung tradition, in order to situate my discussion of Eckhart within the more well-known humanist tradition. Here, I claim that Bildung (as we understand it today through the classic Bildung philosophers) points back to its theological heritage and horizon of meaning, when it is claimed as the general tekhnê (art, craft) of making oneself at home in the world with and through others. In my first step, I then explore the intellectual heritage of this mystical structure of Bildung. Drawing on a range of Meister Eckhart’s writings (esp. his German sermons), I elaborate three features pivotal to his concept of Bildung (as image-ing) of the imago Dei (image of God) in the human soul/action: (1) divine grace, (2) human cultivation and (3) the harmonisation of both in (what I shall call) ‘careful gestures'. In my concluding second step, I illustrate this mystical structure of Eckhartian Bildung—with a particular focus on the emergence of careful gestures—through the motion picture Des Hommes et Des Dieux.
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Frimberger, Katja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-4040;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 89721 Dates: DateEvent26 June 2024Published26 June 2024Published Online18 June 2024AcceptedSubjects: Education > Theory and practice of education
Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > Philosophy (General)Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 25 Jun 2024 09:48 Last modified: 02 Oct 2024 13:50 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/89721