“ The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear ”  The German fairytale by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm is a fascinating yet psychologically insightful, rather than a philosophically insightful (though with substantive philosophical insights) - story. It entails a single protagonist who goes by the reference “the boy”, who was a “dimwit” according to his own “clever and intelligent” older brother and equally his own father who permanently banished him for his seeming - general

Abstract Difference is fundamental to education. In fact, if we take education as a process of learning, learning which is necessarily learning about new things for the subject, only differences can produce the conditions whereby one can learn. This paper utilises Jacques Lacan’s philosophy of language to present an epistemic theory of knowledge via the signifier. This theory involves a dialectics of difference where to know something which has not yet been known, somethin

Abstract Polarisation has become an evermore existent word. Seemingly, the only word that is not polarising is the word “polarisation” itself, that is one thing we are surely all in unanimous agreement.   Many people view such polarisation which vulnerably escalates the inextricably interlocked interlocutors’ subjectivities as an unproductive and unsolvable ground of ever-flaring tension.  This paper, rather than claiming to provide one singular grand  solution to this po