Philosopher Kings - Paperback

by Cara Losier Chanoine (Author)

Philosopher Kings is about the elation and agony of acquiring and imparting knowledge. It is a book about students, teachers, and the spaces in which they become the same people. Especially, it is a love letter to the messiness of learning, to the ways in which it constitutes survival. Learning is hardly ever what we imagine it to be. It happens just as frequently in dive bars and subway cars as it does in the classrooms of august brick buildings. It does not care about the hardships we endure to pursue it. It has no sympathy for what we love or who we lose or how we fail again and again. It only cares that we keep showing up. ThIs collection interrogates the ways in which we define learning and invokes the banality and chaos attendant to daily life as necessary facets of these definitions. Learning is not quiet or easy, but Philosopher Kings frames it as an adventure that is always worth the struggle.