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Rosin, Matthew S.

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Obsoleting culture: An educational reading of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman".

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Obsoleting culture: An educational reading of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"./
Author:	Rosin, Matthew S.
Description:	187 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3319.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-09A.
Subject:	Education, Philosophy of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3145603
ISBN:	0496046012

Obsoleting culture: An educational reading of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman".
Rosin, Matthew S.

Obsoleting culture: An educational reading of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman". - 187 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3319.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2004.

This study explores---from an educational perspective---the problem of human obsolescence and its relation to American Dream ideologies of success and failure. This is accomplished through a close reading of a work of one of America's most perceptive social critics of the second half of the twentieth century: the playwright Arthur Miller. Using his depiction in Death of a Salesman, the processes through which persons come to be identified as "obsolete" are analyzed. By synthesizing educational theory and cultural studies scholarship through a single inquiry, according to which "learning" and "identity" are the primary units of analysis, two interrelated questions are addressed. First, how do we learn to produce obsoleting identities for one another? Second, what challenges face the responsible researcher who would study human obsolescence without reproducing the same obsoleting accounts of learning that she aims to critique?

ISBN: 0496046012Subjects--Topical Terms:

783746
Education, Philosophy of.

Obsoleting culture: An educational reading of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman".
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520 $a This study explores---from an educational perspective---the problem of human obsolescence and its relation to American Dream ideologies of success and failure. This is accomplished through a close reading of a work of one of America's most perceptive social critics of the second half of the twentieth century: the playwright Arthur Miller. Using his depiction in Death of a Salesman, the processes through which persons come to be identified as "obsolete" are analyzed. By synthesizing educational theory and cultural studies scholarship through a single inquiry, according to which "learning" and "identity" are the primary units of analysis, two interrelated questions are addressed. First, how do we learn to produce obsoleting identities for one another? Second, what challenges face the responsible researcher who would study human obsolescence without reproducing the same obsoleting accounts of learning that she aims to critique?
520 $a The study explores the ways in which the characters of the play produce identities with and for one another through their evolving participation in competitive practices of consumption, newness, and success. This is creative, interpersonal hard work. One's "success" depends upon one's integration into the future plans of those who are in a position to authorize that "success." Learning to be successful entails learning how to not get caught failing, lest this "failure" be capitalized upon publicly. The play's treatment of the American imperative of "success" and the threat of obsolescence enables us to imagine better how social actors learn to organize possible futures through the constraints of their respective positions.
520 $a Such inquiry must also consider the positional challenges and vulnerabilities of the researcher. The researcher's practice must be organized by constant reflexive scrutiny, in order that her work not reproduce the same obsoleting explanations that it claims to analyze, particularly through reductive conceptions of learning. This inquiry is constructed as a model of this reflexive practice. Critical reflexivity is understood as a central component of the responsible public practice of research into human obsolescence, and "learning" is understood as the developing participation of social actors with one another in the becoming of institutions, ideologies, and biographies.
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