This essay examines illness as an anthropological and educational experience, exploring its philosophical, historical, literary, and pedagogical dimensions. From biblical texts to Hippocratic writings, from Aquinas to Cartesian modernity, and from Canguilhem and Sontag to the medical humanities, illness is portrayed as an event linking body, language, and freedom. It disrupts life’s continuity, urging new norms of meaning and acting as a call to personal awareness. Pedagogy does not tame the enigma of suffering but guides individuals in transforming vulnerability into narrative and ethical resources, fostering an education to care that preserves the uniqueness and symbolic depth of illness.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3693-5209
Titolo del capitolo
Oltre l’addomesticamento dell’enigma. La pedagogia di fronte alla malattia
Autori
Fabio Togni
Lingua
Italiano
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0943-4.04
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Formare professionisti dell’educazione, della scuola, della cura
Sottotitolo del libro
La Scuola in Ospedale e l’Istruzione Domiciliare
Curatori
Vanna Boffo
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
208
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0943-4
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0942-7
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0943-4
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0944-1
Collana
Studies on Adult Learning and Education
ISSN della collana
2704-596X
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5781