Activating Aesthetics

This book asks how the aesthetic might be activated and applied through philosophies of education, and how we can intervene in instrumental attitudes to education by activating an aesthetic sensibility. It was originally published in Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Elizabeth M. Grierson is Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. An Australian lawyer, and a barrister in New Zealand (as Gresson), with a Ph.D. in Education and a Juris Doctor Distinction, she publishes in philosophy of education, aesthetics, law and justice.

Introduction 1. Activating Aesthetics: Working with Heidegger and Bourdieu for engaged pedagogy 2. Rendering Visible: Painting sexuate ontologies 3. All Things Out of Rule 4. Activating Built Pedagogy: A genealogical exploration of educational space at the University of Auckland Epsom Campus and Business School 5. Artwork as Technics 6. Katsushika Hokusai and a Poetics of Nostalgia 7. Thoughts on Film: Critically engaging with both Adorno and Benjamin 8. Reconsidering Music's Relational Dimension: Heidegger and the work of music in education