Kształcenie w perspektywie filozofii obcości Bernharda Waldenfelsa
Education in the perspective of Bernhard Waldenfels’s philosophy of the alien

Summary/Abstract: The paper considers the question of relationship between Bernhard Waldenfels’s phenomenologyof the alien and education. In the first part it presents the character of the experience ofthe alien developed by the German thinker, underlining its double structure – the stage of shockand surprise with the alien and the moment of response to its “demand”, which philosopherrelates to a certain sort of ethics. In the second part, the article establishes the relationshipbetween the Waldenfels’s experience of the alien and a transformative mode of learningunderstood as the one that makes a place for categories of unexpected and desired in education,allows for subjectivity formation and strengthens critical thinking. The last part of the textaddresses a question of the place of transformative Bildung based on Waldenfels’s phenomenologicalanalysis of the alien in the contemporary neoliberal landscape with its shift towardsfunctional, instrumentalist and consumer-based modes of teaching.

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