Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction: Bildung and the idea of a liberal education: Lars Lovlie and Paul Standish.
2. Bildung and the Thinking of Bildung: Sven Erik Nordenbo.
3. The Idea of a Universal Theory of Education - an Impossible but Necessary Project?: Michael Uljens.
4. How General Can Bildung Be? Reflections on the Future of a Modern Education Ideal: Gery Biesta.
5. Bildung and Critical Theory in the Face of Postmodern Education: Ilan Gur-Ze'ev.
6. On Irritation and Transformation: A-teleological Bildung and its Significance for the Democratic Form of Living: Roland Reichenbach.
7. Beyond the Present State of Affairs: Bildung and the Search for Orientation in Rapidly Transforming Societies: Halmut Peukert.
8. The Double Call: on Bildung in a literary and reflective perspective: Klaus Peter Mortensen.
9. Modernising Media or Modernist Medium? The Struggle for Liberal Oearning in Our Information Age: Rene V. Arcilla.
10. The Promise of Bildung: Lars Lovlie.
11. Illusion - How Friedrich Schiller Can Cast Light on Bildung: Hansjorg Hohr.
Bibliography.
Index.