Lyotard: Just EducationPradeep Dhillon, Paul Standish 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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... Postmodernism, Pedagogy (1999), with James Marshall, and Education and the Postmodern Condition, with a foreword by Jean-François Lyotard (ed.) (1995/97), all published by Bergin and Garvey. He is currently Executive Editor of the ...
... Postmodernism, Pedagogy (1999), with James Marshall, and Education and the Postmodern Condition, with a foreword by Jean-François Lyotard (ed.) (1995/97), all published by Bergin and Garvey. He is currently Executive Editor of the ...
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... Postmodern Condition (Lyotard 1984a), about the special importance of Kant and Wittgenstein, and about the kind of hope that his philosophy offers. Philosophy and education: the reception of Lyotard Lyotard has sometimes been thought ...
... Postmodern Condition (Lyotard 1984a), about the special importance of Kant and Wittgenstein, and about the kind of hope that his philosophy offers. Philosophy and education: the reception of Lyotard Lyotard has sometimes been thought ...
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... postmodern condition, both textually and as the social-historical context within which these questions are raised. If Max Weber told us a story of how we moved from traditional societies to ones that are rule-governed, systematic, and ...
... postmodern condition, both textually and as the social-historical context within which these questions are raised. If Max Weber told us a story of how we moved from traditional societies to ones that are rule-governed, systematic, and ...
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... Postmodern Condition, but it is regrettable if exploration ends with this book. Powerful indictment of the problems facing contemporary higher education, and telling evocation of the nature of performativity as it undoubtedly is, there ...
... Postmodern Condition, but it is regrettable if exploration ends with this book. Powerful indictment of the problems facing contemporary higher education, and telling evocation of the nature of performativity as it undoubtedly is, there ...
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... Postmodern Condition find their source here: the critique ofa class monopolization of knowledge and the mercantilization of knowledge and education; an attack on the “hierarchic magisterial relation” of pedagogy; the refusal of a kind ...
... Postmodern Condition find their source here: the critique ofa class monopolization of knowledge and the mercantilization of knowledge and education; an attack on the “hierarchic magisterial relation” of pedagogy; the refusal of a kind ...
Contents
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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 |
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