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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... Aesthetics Of Existence. Nigel Blake works at the Open University, UK. He is currently Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. He writes on topics in critical theory and poststructuralism, with a particular ...
... Aesthetics Of Existence. Nigel Blake works at the Open University, UK. He is currently Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. He writes on topics in critical theory and poststructuralism, with a particular ...
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... aesthetics, and moral judgment; on childhood and play. Lyotard's continuing concern with ways of resisting or overcoming the encroachments of nihilism exposes ways in which our contemporary practices have become devalued. There is, it ...
... aesthetics, and moral judgment; on childhood and play. Lyotard's continuing concern with ways of resisting or overcoming the encroachments of nihilism exposes ways in which our contemporary practices have become devalued. There is, it ...
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... aesthetics of communication, in the fair and just representation ofjustice, manifested in education within formal institutions and in the practices of daily life; hence his interest in the difference such concerns present for the ...
... aesthetics of communication, in the fair and just representation ofjustice, manifested in education within formal institutions and in the practices of daily life; hence his interest in the difference such concerns present for the ...
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... aesthetics injudgment with a special emphasis on the significance of the sublime. This is the place of hope that cannot be articulated nor shown by the protocols of reason, of hope that can be felt. It is thus that he avoids an easy ...
... aesthetics injudgment with a special emphasis on the significance of the sublime. This is the place of hope that cannot be articulated nor shown by the protocols of reason, of hope that can be felt. It is thus that he avoids an easy ...
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... aesthetics of the work of art, is liberating for our imagination in that it enables us to see beyond the limits of our thinking and being. Lyotard's interest in aesthetics is important throughout his writings, but the full influence of ...
... aesthetics of the work of art, is liberating for our imagination in that it enables us to see beyond the limits of our thinking and being. Lyotard's interest in aesthetics is important throughout his writings, but the full influence of ...
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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