SOYOUNG LEE is Assistant Professor of Education at Pusan National University, South Korea. She previously worked in primary education. Her main areas of scholarship are phenomenology, poststructuralism, and the philosophy of language, especially in relation to ethics, education in the arts and humanities, and teacher education. Her recent work explores themes of mourning and remembrance.

List of Figures vii
Foreword ix
Introduction 1
1 Poetics of the Encyclopaedia: Knowledge, Pedagogy, and Research Today 15
2 Thinking in Nearness: Seven Steps on the Way to a Heideggerian Approach to Education 43
3 From Heidegger to Translation and the Address of the Other 67
4 'Ethics is an Optics': Ethical Practicality and the Exposure of Teaching 91
5 Covering the Wound: Education and the Work of Mourning 115
6 Problems of Knowledge: Reading a Poem, Reading the Immemorial 143
7 Wandering Words, Words in Faith: Speak You Too 179
References 215
Index 225