Preface; Paul Standish.- 1. Introduction: Education as Self-transformation and the Essayist Form of Writing: Education for a Post-secular Age.- PART I - George Lukacs: Practice of Philosophy for Existential Fulfillment.- 2. A Reflection on the Relation between Philosophy and Life; through Hans Blumenberg’s Work.- 3. A Response to Modernity Between Reason and Faith: Kierkegaard’s Ideas of Ethical Self and Subjectivity.- 4. Practicing Philosophy, the Practice of Education: Exploring the Essayist Form through Lukacs’ Soul and Form.- PART II - Stanley Cavell: Practice of Education in the Essay-Form.- 5. Stanley Cavell’s Ordinary Language Philosophy as an Example of Practicing Philosophy in the Essay-form: In Search of a Humanistic Approach to Teacher Education.- 6. Philosophy as the Essayist Form of Writing: Cavell’s Concepts of Voice, Method, and Text.- 7. Cavell’s Essayist as the Political Self: Implication for Citizenship Education.- 8. Conclusion: The Essayist Form of Writing for a Tragic Form of Subjectivity.- Index.