This is the end

Considerations on death and/in education

Abstract

An educational act must not only come to an end but its effectiveness receives light from the very conclusion of it. A thought of the end brings with it a certain idea of death, and allows us to think of an education that can be “terminated” to use a Freudian term. Contemporary pedagogical thinking needs a reflection on the theme of the end as a necessary space to think of oneself as precarious and mortal in a precarious and mortal universe.