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A Creative Education for the Day after Tomorrow
Author(s) -
MUNDAY IAN
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9752.12172
Subject(s) - nihilism , creativity , the arts , philosophy of education , sociology , aesthetics , pedagogy , focus (optics) , epistemology , psychology , psychoanalysis , social psychology , philosophy , higher education , political science , law , physics , optics
This paper considers the claims representatives of the ‘creativity movement’ make in regards to change and the future. This will particularly focus on the role that the arts are supposed to play in responding to industrial imperatives for the 21 st century. It is argued that the compressed vision of the future (and past) offered by creativity experts succumbs to the nihilism so often described by Nietzsche. The second part of the paper draws on Stanley Cavell's chapter ‘Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow’ (from a book with the same name) to consider a future oriented arts education that may not fall victim to nihilism.