Disrupting Political Theory Pedagogy

• In Event: Political Socialization in the Age of Digital Media

Abstract

I present the work of Sheldon S. Wolin and Leo Strauss as it pertains to politics and pedagogy. There work is not as different as we have been led to believe. Both authors have blocked critical, radical and utopian pedagogy. I close with a defense of the work of Jacques Derrida’s concept of textual interpretation for opening a space that displaces the authority of the instructor and increases the interpretive range and possible meanings of texts.

Author

• William W. Sokoloff, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley