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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... cultural difference 23 MICHAEL PETERS 2 Lyotard on 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 ...
... cultural difference 23 MICHAEL PETERS 2 Lyotard on 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 ...
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... Cultural Studies. His latest book is Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier (Stanford, 1999). Michael Peters is Professor in the School of Education, University of Auckland. His research interests are in the areas of ...
... Cultural Studies. His latest book is Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier (Stanford, 1999). Michael Peters is Professor in the School of Education, University of Auckland. His research interests are in the areas of ...
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... cultural imperialism, no less, of western civilization: it is governed by the demand for legitimation (ibid.: 27). And indeed the provocation of this vocabulary becomes more acute. Acknowledging the risk of scandalizing the reader ...
... cultural imperialism, no less, of western civilization: it is governed by the demand for legitimation (ibid.: 27). And indeed the provocation of this vocabulary becomes more acute. Acknowledging the risk of scandalizing the reader ...
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... cultures and values at an asymmetrical risk in such contexts. Multiculturalism and feminism similarly have emphasized the insurmountable barriers of difference. Arguments of this kind are often supported by reference to Lyotard's ...
... cultures and values at an asymmetrical risk in such contexts. Multiculturalism and feminism similarly have emphasized the insurmountable barriers of difference. Arguments of this kind are often supported by reference to Lyotard's ...
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... , and sometimes contradictory demands of a society of multiple cultures. Lyotard's portrait of the postmodern condition derives much of its power from its broad rhetorical sweep, and this, Palumbo-Liu Introduction 19.
... , and sometimes contradictory demands of a society of multiple cultures. Lyotard's portrait of the postmodern condition derives much of its power from its broad rhetorical sweep, and this, Palumbo-Liu Introduction 19.
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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