Fear(lessness) & Education: My 'best' book

[R.Michael Fisher]

Published in 2024, by Information Age Publishing, I highly recommend this book, some of my best writing on fear(lessness) and education. Here's a mere excerpt from the Table of Contents, to excite your neurons:

 

[R.Michael Fisher]

 An author always likes to see how their new book is doing in sales and distribution. The Fear Problematique, is no different. At this point, and as a homegrown Canadian boy I'm interested how my own country treats me out there on the market of ideas. It appears some 52 college/univ. libraries have this book in the world (at least, according to WorldCat). Most of them in America, and then several other countries but only 1 is in a Canadian post-secondary Library (Medicine Hat College Library, AB). That's a sad statement on my Canadian bretheren, who seem just not interested in the topic of fear, especially in educaion. For the full current WorldCat listing go to: https://search.worldcat.org/title/1416898759?oclcNum=1416898759

[R.Michael Fisher]

As a fearist would (likely) pronounce (e.g., Sam Gillian): "fear is morality's only foundation" (quoted in Fisher, 2024, p. 268). Indeed, I agree. A good discussion on that notion ought to raise our hairs on the back of the neck. Athough, for the lovists, they won't give it a second gaze before they look up and stream tears of joy at their (one/only) God of Love. Btw. I'm very excited I just purchased a copy of John Coleman's pedagogical treatise on deconstructing the alternative (especially, Christian) education going on in America over the last 15 years. He does this autobiographically in his new book "Excess Love" (published by Apocatastasis Institute Press, 2024). Reference. Fisher, R. M. (2024). Igniting a fear praxis for teaching: Samuel N. Gillian Jr.'s life and courage. Peter Lang.