This book proposes that the inescapable difference between humans compels our ethical and political observations in education.

Chapter 1 Prologue Education and an Imperfect Garden; Chapter 1a Facing Humanity: Crisis and Inevitability; Chapter 2 Rethinking Cosmopolitanism Along the Fault Lines of a Divided Modernity; Chapter 3 Not Just for Myself: Questioning the Subject of Human Rights; Chapter 4 Promoting a Just Education: Dilemmas of Rights, Freedom, and Justice; Chapter 5 Whose Rights? Whose Freedom?; Chapter 6 Educating Beyond Consensus: Facing Cross-Cultural Conflict as Radical Democratic Possibility; Chapter 7 Educating the Sexed Citizen: Irigaray and the Promise of a Humanity That Is Yet to Come; Chapter 8 Teachers Judging Without Scripts, or Thinking Cosmopolitan; Chapter 9 Epilogue: Toward an Imperfect Education;