ABSTRACT
Ilan Gur-Ze'ev was very radical at the time; he provided us with a radical and complex way of thinking about education. Gur-Ze'ev was the child of a survivor from the troubles in Europe during the Second World War. Gur-Ze'ev's philosophical development can be divided into two phases. The first phase is centred around his work on the history of pessimism and the Frankfurt School. The second phase continues to criticise normalising education, but offers a more developed discourse around the idea of Diasporic Philosophy and education. This critical way-of-being in the world was embodied by Gur-Ze'ev. Gur-Ze'ev criticised Israel and Palestine because he loved, he cared; his criticisms were a warning against taking the wrong and unethical pathway. His critical attitude and way-of-being enabled him to foresee and say things that others were unable to see because of their ‘normalised way-of-being in the world’. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
