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Granularity: An Ontological Inquiry Into Justice and Holistic Education

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Authors:
  1. Şevket Benhür Oral

    1. Vytautas Kavolis Interdisciplinary Research Institute, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania

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  • Brings together contemporary European continental philosophers with East Asian traditions

  • Uniquely incorporates Tiantai Buddhism into the philosophy of education

  • Discusses thinkers such as Catherine Malabou and Slavoj Žižek and schools of thought such as speculative realism

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Precursions

    • Şevket Benhür Oral
    Pages 1-88

  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Loose Threads

      • Şevket Benhür Oral
      Pages 91-168

  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-175
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    2. Interpermeation, or All Philosophical Positions Are Valid

      • Şevket Benhür Oral
      Pages 177-233

    3. Malabou’s Heidegger and Granularity

      • Şevket Benhür Oral
      Pages 235-268

    4. Žižek and Granularity

      • Şevket Benhür Oral
      Pages 269-278

  5. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-296
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    2. Egoity, Infinity, and (W)holistic Education

      • Şevket Benhür Oral
      Pages 297-372

    3. Imagination and Hyperholistic Education

      • Şevket Benhür Oral
      Pages 373-429

  6. Part IV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 431-432
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    2. The Three Moments and Absolute Justice

      • Şevket Benhür Oral
      Pages 433-458

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 459-475
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About this book

This book presents an original exploration of philosophical questions pertaining to the ways we grasp the Absolute by bringing together the Buddhist notion of interpermeation of all phenomena into contemporary strains of thought in continental philosophy. This text introduces an ontological concept, granularity, deploying it to probe questions concerning the intersection of ontology, ethics, and education.  A wide range of issues in metaphysics are covered—including being, nothingness, unity, plurality, truth, change, transformation, subjectivity, contradiction, coherence, potentiality—from the perspective of thinkers such as Hegel, Heidegger, Badiou, Meillassoux, Malabou, Žižek, and Harman.  The text deploys granularity in arguing for an ethics of unconditional hospitality within education.  This volume is intended for students and researchers working in the areas of philosophy of education, philosophy of religion, and continental philosophy.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Vytautas Kavolis Interdisciplinary Research Institute, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania

    Şevket Benhür Oral

About the author

Dr. Şevket Benhür Oral is a senior researcher at Vytautas Kavolis Interdisciplinary Research Institute at Vytautas Magnus University. His early focus was on Deweyan pragmatist aesthetics. In his dissertation, he elaborated what he terms “the ideal of teaching as consummatory experience” in relation to Dewey’s concept of “experience” as the latter was elucidated in Dewey’s later works, especially, Art as Experience and Experience and Nature. Dr. Oral feels most at home engaging with contemporary issues in continental philosophy and continental philosophy of education. He is also interested in Chinese Buddhist ontologies, especially Tiantai Buddhism. He deploys these schools of thought to inquire into what we can broadly refer to as transformations of human subjectivity.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Granularity: An Ontological Inquiry Into Justice and Holistic Education

  • Authors: Şevket Benhür Oral

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41538-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41537-1Published: 27 November 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41540-1Due: 11 December 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41538-8Published: 26 November 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 475

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Education, Political Science, Buddhism, Philosophy of Religion, Continental Philosophy

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