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Never Again Without Teachers
by Gustavo Zagrebelsky
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‘No teachers ever again!’ the young protesters wrote on the walls of Paris in 1968 – an anti-authoritarian, egalitarian motto which sums up the dream of a freer society. What they didn’t realize is that without teachers we are condemned to the single thought, to uniformity, sameness. Are there any teachers left today? A democracy which flattens the high down to the level of the low seems to need only influencers, communicators and tutors in success who reassure and console, rather than guides of the spirit who awaken consciences.
In this passionate book Zabrebelsky discusses some of the great figures of history and literature to re-examine a role which is as anachronistic as it is necessary: who is there today who can stir popular unrest, think of alternative ways of doing things, move vital and liberating energies to progress towards a sense of something new? Teachers will no longer exist, however, if there are no pupils; only when someone starts asking questions of meaning and ethical needs again will it be possible for teachers to reappear in our world.
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Gustavo Zagrebelsky, former president of the Constitutional Court, is emeritus professor at the University of Turin. The main areas on which he has specialized are the relationship between the formal and substantial aspects of the law, the ideas of democracy, justice and laicity and the problem of the relationship between religion and politics.
Zagrebelsky is one of the leading figures in the contemporary debat on democracy and one of the founders of Biennale Democrazia in Turin. For Einaudi he has published Il diritto mite (Mild Law, 1992), Il ‘crucifige!’ e la democrazia (The ‘Crucify’ and Democracy, 1995 and 2007), La domanda di giustizia (The Question of Justice, with Carlo Maria Martini, 2003), Simboli al potere (Symbols in Power, 2012) and Liberi servi (Free slaves, 2015).
Foreign publications:
Liberi servi, Trotta, 2017; Gegen die Diktatur des Jetzt, Matthes & Seitz; La ley y su justicia, Trotta, 2014; La virtud de la duda, Trotta, 2012; Contra la etica de la verdad, Trotta, 2010; A Crucificação e a Democracia, Saraiva, 2012; Diritti per forza, Trotta, forthcoming.
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- Publisher Società Editrice Il Mulino
- Publication Date May 2019
- Orginal LanguageItalian
- ISBN/Identifier 9788815280787
- Publication Country or regionItaly
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 15 EUR
- Pages154
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleMai più senza maestri
- Copyright Year2019
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