The Subject of Education: Pedagogy and Politics in Strauss and Ranciere
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Abstract
The relationship between formal and informal education and politics has been a central theme in the history of political thought. How does education cultivate political subjects, and what sort of education is appropriate for cultivating what sorts of subjects? I compare answers to these questions about education and political subjectivity suggested by Leo Strauss and Joseph Jacotot, whose pedagogy comes to us most recently through Jacques Ranciere. For Strauss and Jacotot education plays a critical — in the dual senses of “crucial” and “challenging” — political function in liberal democratic and republican regimes, respectively, though both of their views can illuminate our present. The comparison is instructive because it offers two distinct views on the political role of education that are sometimes in accord and sometimes opposed. It is provocative because it brings together a thinker commonly identified either as a reactionary authoritarian or as a conservative, sympathetic critic of liberalism with a critic often identified with the radical democratic left. The comparison of Strauss and Jacotot (mediated by Ranciere) on politics and education thus provides a bridge between what are today two intellectual and political solitudes.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it