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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Page i
... Wittgenstein and broader currents in the Western tradition, did not make a distinction between philosophy and the philosophy of education. This is not only an aspect of Lyotard's work which has been largely neglected until now, but it ...
... Wittgenstein and broader currents in the Western tradition, did not make a distinction between philosophy and the philosophy of education. This is not only an aspect of Lyotard's work which has been largely neglected until now, but it ...
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... Wittgenstein: the differend, language games, and education 36 NICHOLAS C. BURBULES 3 Paralogy, validity claims, and the politics of knowledge: Habermas, Lyotard, and higher education 54 NIGEL BLAKE 4 Overcoming capitalism: Lyotard's ...
... Wittgenstein: the differend, language games, and education 36 NICHOLAS C. BURBULES 3 Paralogy, validity claims, and the politics of knowledge: Habermas, Lyotard, and higher education 54 NIGEL BLAKE 4 Overcoming capitalism: Lyotard's ...
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... Wittgenstein's Existential Investigations (SUNY, 1997), he has been raising Derridean problems for Wittgenstein and Deleuzian problems for Derrida. He is currently following pointlessness and beauty into the manuscript of a book to be ...
... Wittgenstein's Existential Investigations (SUNY, 1997), he has been raising Derridean problems for Wittgenstein and Deleuzian problems for Derrida. He is currently following pointlessness and beauty into the manuscript of a book to be ...
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... Wittgenstein: Philosophy, 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 ...
... Wittgenstein: Philosophy, 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 ...
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... Wittgenstein. WithJames Marshall he co-edited Philosophy and Education: Accepting Wittgenstein's Challenge (Kluwer, 1995) and he is co-author of Thinking Again: Education after Postmodernism (Bergin and Garvey, 1998). He is the editor ...
... Wittgenstein. WithJames Marshall he co-edited Philosophy and Education: Accepting Wittgenstein's Challenge (Kluwer, 1995) and he is co-author of Thinking Again: Education after Postmodernism (Bergin and Garvey, 1998). He is the editor ...
Contents
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 |
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