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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... injustice of requiring people to represent themselves in terms that are alien. There is a constant danger of injustice here. The very fluency of our communication makes us impervious to the existence of differends and turns them into ...
... injustice of requiring people to represent themselves in terms that are alien. There is a constant danger of injustice here. The very fluency of our communication makes us impervious to the existence of differends and turns them into ...
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... injustice of the universal. Subsequently, during the political unrest in France in the late 1960s, Lyotard confronted related injustices in the context of university reform. As a lecturer at Nanterre, Lyotard actively opposed Fouchet's ...
... injustice of the universal. Subsequently, during the political unrest in France in the late 1960s, Lyotard confronted related injustices in the context of university reform. As a lecturer at Nanterre, Lyotard actively opposed Fouchet's ...
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... injustice, and this results in a certain accommodation with capitalism. Any politics then must be a politics of the lesser evil, incorporating the ethical responsibility to bear witness to the wrongs caused by capitalism. In this ...
... injustice, and this results in a certain accommodation with capitalism. Any politics then must be a politics of the lesser evil, incorporating the ethical responsibility to bear witness to the wrongs caused by capitalism. In this ...
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... injustice to be the most important dimension of Lyotard's work for education, Smeyers and Masschelein suggest that more far-reaching implications may lie in the reminder his work provides of the dangers of seeking to contain what must ...
... injustice to be the most important dimension of Lyotard's work for education, Smeyers and Masschelein suggest that more far-reaching implications may lie in the reminder his work provides of the dangers of seeking to contain what must ...
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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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