Walter Benjamins Antifascist Education : From Riddles to Radio

A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin.

Walter Benjamins Antifascist Education is the first comprehensive analysis of educational themes across the entirety of the critical theorists diverse writings. Starting with Benjamins early reflections on teaching and learning, Tyson E. Lewis argues that the aesthetic and cultural forms to which Benjamin so often turned-namely, radio broadcasts, childrens theatrical productions, collections, cityscapes, public cinemas, and word games-swell with educational potentialities. What emerges from Lewiss reading is a constellational curriculum composed of minor practices such as poor teaching, absentminded learning, and nondurational studying. This curriculum carries political significance, offering an antidote to past and present forms of fascist manipulation, hardness, and coldness. Walter Benjamins Antifascist Education is a testimony to Benjamins belief that "everyone is an educator and everyone needs to be educated and everything is education."