Positing that education is a movement from one way of being to another, more desirable one, An Intense Calling argues that ethics should be the prime focus for the field of education. The book locates ethics, education, and justice in human subjectivity and describes education as a necessary practice for ethical reflexivity, change, and becoming (ethically) different. It also situates ethics as something that exceeds subjectivity, thereby engaging ethics as a material phenomenon through topics such as aesthetics and solidarity with non-humans. Jesse Bazzul explores various concepts in the book including power, biopolitics, the commons, subjectivity, and materiality, and draws from over twenty years of experience teaching in different countries including Canada, Ireland, the United States, China, and Ukraine. Taking a wide-ranging philosophical approach, the book entangles ethics, urgent political issues, and pressing educational contexts of the twenty-first century. In doing so, An Intense Calling maintains that ethics is the core of education because education involves finding better ways of living and being in the world. "In his expansive, inclusive, and heartfelt book, An Intense Calling, Jesse Bazzul takes us along on his journey in ethics that also explores the intellectual and practical journey of ethics in education over the past twenty years and into the future, from caring to response-ability. Bazzul invites the reader to experience education in which human exceptionalism is debunked and imagine a future in which all life, including human, and matter are entangled. Bazzul provides insights that support teachers to enact their educational and ethical responsibility to problematize the unproblematized in education and in life. An engaging and thought-provoking journey indeed!" ―Catherine Milne, Professor of Science Education, New York University "Bazzul has written an elegant work of rare erudition and care, a philosophy and ethics of education that locates teaching as a vital practice for living differently together in the Anthropocene. It is a necessary book for educators seeking a language and concepts that radically open the pedagogical imagination against its closure in our catastrophic era." ―Alexander Means, Chair and Associate Professor of Educational Foundations, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa "This is a wonderfully inventive volume, seriously playful in its invitation to plumb the depths of the existential, climatic, and political realities facing education today. Fiercely ethical in its stance, the book gives full rein to the centrality of relational ethics in education and does not shy away from asking difficult questions that compel us as educators to face our complicity within ‘business as usual’ colonial frameworks. Offering innovative responses to real-world issues, it is a valuable resource in challenging simplistic one-world thinking. There is an ebullient energy and passion to Bazzul’s writing informed by his deep respect for Indigenous knowledges, posthumanism, Foucault, and Deleuze. It is truly powerful, creative, and accessible – a text I soon look forward to reading with my students and colleagues!" ―Sharon Todd, Professor of Education, Maynooth University Jesse Bazzul is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina.