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Cultural Resilience: A Post-Anthropic Theory of Bildung between Inheritences and Futurities

Internally funded project

Start date : 11.11.2020

End date : 31.12.2029

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Basic Approach:

The project explores possibilities for a relational understanding of education (1) that transcends the largely established individualistic reduction of Bildung. To this end, it embeds a culture- and education-theoretical concept of sustainability (2) under the title of resilience at the core of the educational theory to be modeled: Bildung is conceived as a collective transformative learning process situated in the tension between cultural traditions and enabled futures (futurity/futurability).

By relational educational theory, we refer particularly to approaches that assume that both the subjective and objective dimensions of educational processes emerge from the process itself as such. This perspective is grounded in relational (process) philosophies (Whitehead, G.H. Mead, Stengers), which trace their roots, among others, to Early Romanticism— a formative period for contemporary educational theory.

The project addresses a concept of sustainability that (re-)constructs sustainability thinking through cultural and educational theory, for instance, based on a formal-operative theory of education as a cultural institution. This perspective is informed by an understanding of education as a performative process of mediated appropriation in relation to cultural dispositions of activity (Sünkel) within cultural (value-based) constructions of life’s continuation (Mollenhauer). We expand on this latter aspect in a normatively critical way by drawing on concepts such as sympoiesis (Haraway), futurity (à-venir, Derrida), futurability (Berardi), and a pedagogical anthropology of the Anthropocene (Wulf).

Scientific Abstract

The project aims to develop a collective theory of transformative education in which "sustainability" is conceptualized as an inherent tension between heritage/inheriting and futurity/futurability. In this context, cultural resilience is not merely understood as an adaptive response to social and ecological challenges but as a structuring principle of relational educational processes. This approach integrates perspectives from educational theory, cultural theory, and posthumanism to describe education as an emergent practice within intra-actional constellations.

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