ABSTRACT
The constant fact of the radical pedagogies, apart from upholding the passion for ideas, is a critical engagement with the history of philosophy, but in a non-dogmatic and antiauthoritarian manner. In this chapter, the author passion for critical pedagogy, for teaching differently, and for the transmission of counter memory translates also into the intergenerational responsibility about debt and wealth transfer. The passion for the ideas of the present, the transformation of anger and indignation, and then the loyalty, the memory, and the pietas for so many who just did not make it, or they wrote fabulous stuff that was in Greek and Swedish, and nobody ever bothered to translate it. The point of teaching critical theory is to inspire affective, ethical praxis. Feeling accountable for situations and events that the people are not directly responsible for is typical of the author generation.
