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Leo Tolstoy
Daniel Moulin
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How do we know what we should teach? And how should we go about teaching it? These deceptively simple questions about education perplexed Tolstoy. Before writing his famous novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy opened an experimental school on his estate to try and answer them. His experiences there incited his life-long inquiry into the meaning and purpose of religion, literature, art and life itself. In this text, Daniel Moulin tells the story of the course of Tolstoy’s educational thought, and how it relates to Tolstoy's fiction and other writings. It begins with his experience of ... Read more
How do we know what we should teach? And how should we go about teaching it? These deceptively simple questions about education perplexed Tolstoy. Before writing his famous novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy opened an experimental school on his estate to try and answer them. His experiences there incited his life-long inquiry into the meaning and purpose of religion, literature, art and life itself. In this text, Daniel Moulin tells the story of the course of Tolstoy’s educational thought, and how it relates to Tolstoy's fiction and other writings. It begins with his experience of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472504838
SKU
V9781472504838
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Ref
99-10
About Daniel Moulin
Daniel Moulin is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society in the University of Navarra, Spain. He was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Kilns C.S. Lewis Study Centre, Oxford, UK, 2010-2011, and Chapel Director at Somerville College, Oxford, UK, 2011-2013.
Reviews for Leo Tolstoy
Dan Moulin has written a book that helps us see Tolstoy as a significant educational philosopher in spite of the glare of his fame as perhaps the greatest of novelists. Moulin brings us into Tolstoy's world, a world of polemics, epics and fictions. He carefully and critically engages the reader in Tolstoy's sometimes arrogant approach to educational theorists, and his ... Read more