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Direct linkLewis, Tyson E. – Educational Theory, 2012
In this essay Tyson Lewis reevaluates Jean-Jacques Rousseau's assessment of the pedagogical value of fables in Emile's education using Giorgio Agamben's theory of poetic production and Thomas Keenan's theory of the inherent ambiguity of the fable. From this perspective, the "unreadable" nature of the fable that Rousseau exposed is not simply the…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Figurative Language, Literary Genres, Children
