Current issues :

n° 30, Thinking Education through (november 2006, contents)

The philosophy of Education is an uncommon field that is much sought after.

This periodical is aimed at giving a place to the philosophy of Education in the publishing world. It is a way for this field to have its own theoretical elaboration. It intends to define an autonomous scope of research that makes it possible to tackle the topical questions in Education with a new approach.

Throughout the reading of the periodical issues, you will find inceasing interferences of several fields such as history, sociology, philosophy of politics, child psychology and educational sciences, literature and the good old classical philosophy.

Why is the periodical called Le Télémaque ? It refers to the piece of work Fenelon had written within two years (from 1694 to 1696) to ensure a proper education to the Duke of Bourgogne : his position seems to be exemplary. As a matter of fact Fenelon was influenced by the Antiquity authors such as Homer and Vergil. He took the best of their ideas that were still workable at the end of the 17th century. Although he had inherited these ideas from the ancient time, his philosophy included all the nascent schemes of modernity. His contemporaries never doubt of his methods being significant : the book became immediately a best seller in France and in other countries (for the only 17th century, the book was to be translated in more than a dozen of languages). Up to the end of the 19th century, it was considered as the indispensable reference for every reflection connected with Education, from Rousseau's book l'Émile (1762) to Joseph Jacotot's Manuel de l'émancipation intellectuelle (" Manual of intellectual freeing " - 1841), which is a project for social and popular Education.

This periodical was created in 1994. Since 1988, it's been edited by the Presses Universitaires de l'Université de Caen (a publishing house at the University of Caen). There are currently 30 issues.

Each issue includes some regular columns and a special report aimed at dealing with a new approach of the most current and relevant questions of Education.