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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... become devalued. There is, it should be clear, no unitary “philosophy of education” here; rather the inducement to think differently about these matters. His insights point repeatedly to the possibility of an education that is morejust ...
... become devalued. There is, it should be clear, no unitary “philosophy of education” here; rather the inducement to think differently about these matters. His insights point repeatedly to the possibility of an education that is morejust ...
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... become so prominent a feature of contemporary educational regimes. Whatever is undertaken must bejustified in terms of an increase in productivity, measured in terms of a gain in time. Traditional theory is always vulnerable to ...
... become so prominent a feature of contemporary educational regimes. Whatever is undertaken must bejustified in terms of an increase in productivity, measured in terms of a gain in time. Traditional theory is always vulnerable to ...
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... become the “dream” instrument for extending the application of the performativity principle. But he also envisages a ... becomes more acute. Acknowledging the risk of scandalizing the reader, Lyotard speaks of the severity of the system ...
... become the “dream” instrument for extending the application of the performativity principle. But he also envisages a ... becomes more acute. Acknowledging the risk of scandalizing the reader, Lyotard speaks of the severity of the system ...
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... becomes most evident. It is above all in the avant-garde that he sees the most telling evocation of the sublime: there is something there of great value, but its value lies in part in its unapproachability. That the significance of this ...
... becomes most evident. It is above all in the avant-garde that he sees the most telling evocation of the sublime: there is something there of great value, but its value lies in part in its unapproachability. That the significance of this ...
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... becomes melancholic longing or nostalgia, with all the burdens this has placed on philosophy and politics. The hope that a beginning often brings becomes represented as an enlightenment, the dawn ofa new age, a morning. Lyotard enjoins ...
... becomes melancholic longing or nostalgia, with all the burdens this has placed on philosophy and politics. The hope that a beginning often brings becomes represented as an enlightenment, the dawn ofa new age, a morning. Lyotard enjoins ...
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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