Leo Tolstoy Dan Moulin by Dan Moulin 9781472541420, 1472541421 instant download after payment.

Anglophone educationalists have sporadically taken an interest in Tolstoy's educational ‘philosophy’ but they have seldom consulted the writer's thought beyond the 1860s, or explored its intimate relationship with the novelist's creative and spiritual evolution. This book tells the untold story of Tolstoy's life-long interest in education, as revealed in his fiction, non-fiction and social activism. It is argued that Tolstoy's educational works were not a dilettante side-track from his literary career, but an integral part of the development of his literature and wider thought, as well as becoming a vital facet of his mature worldview. After drawing together significant themes from Tolstoy's writings spanning 1852 to 1910, the book evaluates Tolstoy's contribution to educational thought with regards to some of the perennial problems of the philosophy of education, arguing that Tolstoy's views are worthy of consideration by educationists, perhaps more today than in Tolstoy's own lifetime.

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< e books in this series take the form of what might be called ‘philosophical biography’ in the area of educational studies. < eir shared purpose, simply put, is to understand the thoughts and practices of certain educational philosophers. Straight away this project is confronted with some potential diffi culties. As even a cursory read of the list of thinkers whose names provide the titles within the series will testify, many are not ordinarily considered to be philosophers. Some can be more sensibly located in other areas of the academy – sociology, economics, psychology, and so on. Others seem unsuited of the label because their contribution to education is primarily in terms of its practice. In the narrow, disciplinary sense, then, many of the subjects of this series are clearly not philosophers. In another sense, however, and this is the sense employed by Jean-Paul Sartre in his own attempts in the genre, a philosophical biography.

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