ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses the Hegelian conception of Bildung offers a realistic vision of the normative state. It introduces a preliminary understanding of education as Bildung. The book also discusses the meaning of Bildung in three different works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, namely in the Phenomenology of Spirit, in the speeches that Hegel held as rector of the Gymnasium in Nuremberg between 1809 and 1815, and in the Philosophy of Right. It develops a theory of Bildung which draws on Neo-Hegelian philosophers, such as Theodor Adorno, Axel Honneth and Robert Brandom. The book explores some implications of the Neo-Hegelian account of Bildung for schooling. It tries to determine some central features of Bildung-supportive teaching as well as forms of curriculum planning and assessment that teaching presupposes.
