Education and Democracy at The End

Mario Di Paolantonio is Associate Professor at York University, Canada. His extensive publications span across the fields of philosophy of education, social and political thought, cultural memory and the arts.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. What Sense for Democracy?.- 3. Thinking in Destitute Times.- 4. The Foreclosing of the Transgenerational Sense of Education.- 5. “Passing On” and the Heritage of Democracy-to-Come.- 6. The End of Democracy-to-Come: Predictability, Denial, and Reckoning with Historical Agnosia.- 7. Withdrawal: Re-figuring Sense for the Future Through José Saramago’s Seeing and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being.