Todd, Sharon
(2003)
A Fine Risk To Be Run?
The Ambiguity of Eros and Teacher Responsibility.
Studies in Philisophy and Education, 22 (1).
pp. 31-44.
ISSN 0039-3746
Abstract
Teachers are often placed in a space of tension between responding to
students as persons and responding to students through their institutionally-defined roles.
Particularly with respect to eros, which has become increasingly the subject of strict institutional
legislation and regulation, teachers have little recourse to a language of responsibility
outside an institutional frame. By studying the significance of communicative ambiguity
for responsibility, this paper explores what is ethically at stake for teachers in erotic forms
of communication. Specifically, it is Levinas’s own ambiguous understanding of the ethical
significance of eros, and what we have to learn from it, that offers a way of reading the place
of eros in responsibility. I conclude my discussion with some thoughts on what a renewed
understanding of responsibility might mean at the personal and institutional levels.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
ambiguity; communication; eros; institutions; Levinas; responsibility;
teaching; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
| Item ID: |
8537 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Sharon Todd
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| Date Deposited: |
01 Aug 2017 12:51 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Studies in Philisophy and Education |
| Publisher: |
Springer Verlag |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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| Use Licence: |
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