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  • Precisely by emphasizing how the subject may reach beyond herself in dialogical encounters with others does the term Bildung, in Gadamer's view, allow for an ethical aspect of hermeneutics, for a hermeneutics that may contribute to a political, rather than an aesthetic humanism.

    Hermeneutics Ramberg, Bjørn 2005

  • The crisis of Box Hill has made an irrevocable change, and Emma's Bildung is almost complete.

    Box Hill and the Limits of Realism 2000

  • We find it in the work of Herder, the young Schleiermacher, and, expanding the focus to the realm of literature, the idea of Bildung is operative in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister.

    Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg [Novalis] Gjesdal, Kristin 2009

  • Going back to Vico and the neo-Aristotelian strands of early modern humanism, Gadamer wants to combine the Heideggerian notion of the world-disclosive synthesis of understanding with the idea of Bildung, of education in culture.

    Hermeneutics Ramberg, Bjørn 2005

  • We are currently holding a seminar ³Exploration of the virtual 3-D learning-space Second Life² as part of the curriculum of the division General pedagogics (focussing on "Bildung" and technology) at the Technical University Darmstadt (Germany).

    Archive 2007-07-01 Milosun Czervik 2007

  • We are currently holding a seminar ³Exploration of the virtual 3-D learning-space Second Life² as part of the curriculum of the division General pedagogics (focussing on "Bildung" and technology) at the Technical University Darmstadt (Germany).

    Qualitative survey of didactical approaches in SL Milosun Czervik 2007

  • Essentially, Slaughter builds on the work of Georg Lukács and other historians and theorists of the novel who have argued that novels of "Bildung" or the maturation and self-formation of a youthful protagonist, typically through a journey and a series of challenges enact as a cultural practice the emergence of the modern, bourgeois, liberal subject of rights.

    Mullins reviews Slaughter, Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • Essentially, Slaughter builds on the work of Georg Lukács and other historians and theorists of the novel who have argued that novels of "Bildung" or the maturation and self-formation of a youthful protagonist, typically through a journey and a series of challenges enact as a cultural practice the emergence of the modern, bourgeois, liberal subject of rights.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • The 'Bildung' of Barbie - The New York Review of Books

    The 'Bildung' of Barbie Ascherson, Neal 1983

  • Morgan's later national tales construct their identities through role-playing that dramatizes conflicting versions of Irish history and even conflicting models of time; personal Bildung depends on what Ferris calls "hyper-hybridity" rather than on the unity of national culture (81, 84).

    Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault) 2008

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