Is Pedagogy Transhuman? Reflections on the Relationship Between Pedagogy and Transhumanism

Abstract

The following contribution aims at discussing the role of pedagogy against the background of a time in which limits are overcome through the use of new technologies. It is argued that pedagogy is in some way itself always related to both the recognition, as well as the overcoming, of limits. This can be seen first of all in the fact that both a recognition of the limit of the self as well as (or rather in differentiation to) a limit of the other are necessary in order to recognise oneself in the first place and therefore are essential to the constitution and formation of the self and the world. Secondly, the basic duty of pedagogy could be defined as the forming of human beings through the use of educational tools and by changing the limits that constitute the self. Adhering to this definition would therefore assume that there is a transhuman moment inherent in pedagogy itself.

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Thomas Damberger, Estella Hebert

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  • EP ID EP297241
  • DOI 10.12775/SPI.2017.1.002
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Thomas Damberger, Estella Hebert (2017). Is Pedagogy Transhuman? Reflections on the Relationship Between Pedagogy and Transhumanism. Studia Paedagogica Ignatiana. Rocznik Wydziału Pedagogicznego Akademii Ignatianum w Krakowie, 20(1), 41-56. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-297241