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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... practices have 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 ...
... practices have 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 ...
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... practices of the system's managers. So also, it can be added, is radical theory, as we see, for example, where unorthodox ... practice can be marketed to relaunch a company and revitalize its portfolio. Criticism can be tolerated and ...
... practices of the system's managers. So also, it can be added, is radical theory, as we see, for example, where unorthodox ... practice can be marketed to relaunch a company and revitalize its portfolio. Criticism can be tolerated and ...
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... practices of daily life; hence his interest in the difference such concerns present for the learning and enactment of citizenship. In his view, judgment, the adjudication between various and multiple ways of looking on the world, is ...
... practices of daily life; hence his interest in the difference such concerns present for the learning and enactment of citizenship. In his view, judgment, the adjudication between various and multiple ways of looking on the world, is ...
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... practice, nevertheless, there is a unifying element. He draws this out by turning to the Kant of the third Critique and also the political writings. He evokes the reflective judgment of Kant's aesthetics, the search for a law from ...
... practice, nevertheless, there is a unifying element. He draws this out by turning to the Kant of the third Critique and also the political writings. He evokes the reflective judgment of Kant's aesthetics, the search for a law from ...
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... practices of fairness and commitments to contractualjustice have their darker side. An appreciation of this requires once again a consideration of the rule-governed activities that structure our institutions and practices, not least our ...
... practices of fairness and commitments to contractualjustice have their darker side. An appreciation of this requires once again a consideration of the rule-governed activities that structure our institutions and practices, not least our ...
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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