2104/2021 ‘Lost in Translation: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Education and the Question of Abxchlung (Training) | Norm Fraser
Here's the abstract for a short paper I've been preparing for a conference:
Asa landmark philosopher of language and of mind, Ludwig Witigenstein’s work,
particularly in the Philosophical Investigations, has been taken up by philosophers of education in
English. Christopher Winch (1998), Michael A. Peters (1999), Nicholas Burbules (2010), and others
(eg. Aparece 2005) have engaged extensively with the implications of the later Wittgenstein’s
philosophy of mind and language for education. One challenge that that they face is Wittgenstein’s
use of the word “training” throughout his discussions of language learning and in his periodie
references to education. This is made all the more problematic by realizing that the term
Wittgenstein actually used was Abrichtung, which refers exclusively to animal dressage or
obedience training, connoting also the breaking of an animal's will. This little-recognized fact has
broad implications for many important Wittgenstinian insights into education, extending from
literacies as language games to teaching as ostensive definition. This paper sheds light on these
implications as well as on those more broadly relevant to Wittgenstein’s life and thought.
Read this
short piece here (pdf).
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