Lyotard: Just Education

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Pradeep Dhillon, Paul Standish
Routledge, Apr 14, 2006 - Education - 288 pages
Following Lyotard's death in 1998, this book provides an exploration of the recurrent theme of education in his work. It brings to a wider audience the significance of a body of thought about education that is subtle, profound and still largely unexplored. This book also makes an important contribution to contemporary debates on postmoderism and education.

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Contents

JeanFrançois Lyotard just education in passing
1
JeanFrançois Lyotard and cultural difference
23
the differend language games and education
36
Habermas Lyotard and higher education
54
Lyotards pessimism and Rortys prophecy
73
5 Lyotard as moral educator
97
6 The sublime face of just education
110
7 Another space
125
9 In freedoms grip
157
the unpresentable ambivalence and feminist possibility
177
Lyotards relevance for a pedagogy of the Other
194
12 For a libidinal education
215
13 Pointlessness and the University of Beauty
230
Bibliography
259
Index of themes
269
Index of names
271

8 Lenfance education and the politics of meaning
140

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Pradeep A. Dhillon is Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In addition to her book, Multiple Identities, her articles have appeared in journals of philosophy and the philosophy of education., Paul Standish is a lecturer in the philosophy of education at the University of Dundee. His books include Beyond the Self: Wittgenstein, Heidegger and the Limits of Language, and Thinking Again: Education after Postmodernism, which he co-authored.

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