Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education

Tyson E. Lewis is Professor of Art Education at the University of North Texas. He is the author of several books, including Inoperative Learning: A Radical Rewriting of Educational Potentialities and On Study: Giorgio Agamben and Educational Potentiality.

"It is clear that Lewis has succeeded in providing thoughtful and compelling answers to his central questions on a liberating educational philosophy. Drawing on his own extensive scholarship in educational philosophy and his meticulous reading of Benjamin, Lewis provides provocative lessons on what it can mean to foster free expression of students' potentialities and to unravel binaries (such as means and ends), that have stunted the progressive development of educational forms in the context of growing educational authoritarianism." — Theory and Research in Education"Lewis's clearheaded, illuminating gloss of the antifascist impulse in Walter Benjamin's corpus is instructive and more important than ever." — CHOICE"Taking up the multifaceted Benjaminian conception of educational life—a life of studious straying and self-reflection at once critical and mimetic—and following its untoward trajectory in object areas as diverse as slapstick film, riddles, cityscapes, and children's theater, this subtle, imaginative, and comprehensive analysis speaks directly to the moral and spiritual crisis of the present." — Howard Eiland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I InstructionRadio BroadcastsChildren's TheaterPart II CollectionsCityscapesCinemaRiddlesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex