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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... Modern Education Edited by Geoffrey Walford and W. S. F. Pickering 7 The Aims of Education Edited by Roger Marples 8 Education in Morality J. Mark Halstead and Terence H. McLaughlin 9 Lyotard Just education Edited by Pradeep A. Dhillon ...
... Modern Education Edited by Geoffrey Walford and W. S. F. Pickering 7 The Aims of Education Edited by Roger Marples 8 Education in Morality J. Mark Halstead and Terence H. McLaughlin 9 Lyotard Just education Edited by Pradeep A. Dhillon ...
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... Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University, and a contributing editor to the Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. His latest book is Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier (Stanford, 1999) ...
... Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University, and a contributing editor to the Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. His latest book is Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier (Stanford, 1999) ...
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... modern, Lyotard strives to show us the ways in which the modern social systems we inhabit have mutated, and their demands for prescriptive performance intensified. The postmodern condition does not reflect a freedom from structuralism ...
... modern, Lyotard strives to show us the ways in which the modern social systems we inhabit have mutated, and their demands for prescriptive performance intensified. The postmodern condition does not reflect a freedom from structuralism ...
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... modern ways of knowing are legitimated with reference to a grand narrative of some kind – of the dialectics of Spirit, of the emancipation of the working subject, of humanity as the hero of liberty, of the creation of wealth – the ...
... modern ways of knowing are legitimated with reference to a grand narrative of some kind – of the dialectics of Spirit, of the emancipation of the working subject, of humanity as the hero of liberty, of the creation of wealth – the ...
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... promise of a gradual and progressive enfranchisement – is indicative of a more general resistance on Lyotard's part to modern universalism with its politics of redemption. Lyotard's development needs 10 Pradeep A. Dhillon and Paul Standish.
... promise of a gradual and progressive enfranchisement – is indicative of a more general resistance on Lyotard's part to modern universalism with its politics of redemption. Lyotard's development needs 10 Pradeep A. Dhillon and Paul Standish.
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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