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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... ethical turn toward 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 ...
... ethical turn toward 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 ...
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... ethical precondition for pedagogy. The much cited suspicion toward metanarratives – especially the Grand Narratives of emancipation emanating from 1789, in some sense from the Greek polis, with their promise of a gradual and progressive ...
... ethical precondition for pedagogy. The much cited suspicion toward metanarratives – especially the Grand Narratives of emancipation emanating from 1789, in some sense from the Greek polis, with their promise of a gradual and progressive ...
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... ethical responsibility to bear witness to the wrongs caused by capitalism. In this context Fritzman examines the current relation between education and business, characterized as this is by the telling expression “learn to earn.” That ...
... ethical responsibility to bear witness to the wrongs caused by capitalism. In this context Fritzman examines the current relation between education and business, characterized as this is by the telling expression “learn to earn.” That ...
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... ethical problem for postmodernity is how to present the unpresentable, how to bear witness to differends. Like Fritzman, Nuyen is keen to explore the nature of the invention of rules in relation to existing rules, and the particular ...
... ethical problem for postmodernity is how to present the unpresentable, how to bear witness to differends. Like Fritzman, Nuyen is keen to explore the nature of the invention of rules in relation to existing rules, and the particular ...
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... ethical experience and rules, and shows the way that a different perspective on education can be gained by examining Lyotard's writings on childhood. Such a perspective draws attention to the way in which the affective nature of ethical ...
... ethical experience and rules, and shows the way that a different perspective on education can be gained by examining Lyotard's writings on childhood. Such a perspective draws attention to the way in which the affective nature of ethical ...
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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aesthetic Algeria argues argument autonomy bear witness become capitalism childhood claim concept conflict consensus context critical pedagogy critique cultural differend dominant economic emancipation essay ethical event feeling feminist game player game playing genre of discourse goal grand narratives Habermas Habermas’s heterogeneity human ibid idea idiom imagination incommensurability injustice institutions intensity Jean-François Lyotard Kant Kantian kind knowledge language games legitimation libidinal linguistic litigation Lyotard writes Lyotardian Marxism means megalopolis metanarrative modern moral multiculturalism negation normative notion Nuyen ofjustice one’s paralogy particular performativity philosophy of education pointlessness political position possible Postmodern Condition practice pragmatics present problem question radical rational reading reason recognize representation resistance Rorty rules sense Shylock social bond Socialisme ou Barbarie society speech acts structure sublime teachers teaching Thébaud theory thing thought understanding University of Beauty unpresentable Wittgenstein wrong