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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... recognized until after the event (ibid.: 61). Lyotard wants to identify and draw some hope from a postmodern science that concerns itself with undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete ...
... recognized until after the event (ibid.: 61). Lyotard wants to identify and draw some hope from a postmodern science that concerns itself with undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete ...
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... recognize our responsibility for the rules of our language and their effects, above all for what validates the adoption of rules: the quest for paralogy (ibid.: 66). Lyotard recognizes that computerization could become the “dream ...
... recognize our responsibility for the rules of our language and their effects, above all for what validates the adoption of rules: the quest for paralogy (ibid.: 66). Lyotard recognizes that computerization could become the “dream ...
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... recognize that what remains to be phrased exceeds what they can presently phrase, and that they must be allowed to institute idioms which do not yet exist. (Lyotard 1988a: 13) We gain a sense of the limits of our own measure. This ...
... recognize that what remains to be phrased exceeds what they can presently phrase, and that they must be allowed to institute idioms which do not yet exist. (Lyotard 1988a: 13) We gain a sense of the limits of our own measure. This ...
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... recognize this. Loss and hope What have we lost? What can we hope for? Lyotard's death is an ending, but with regard to endings and beginnings there is a sense in which he challenges our accustomed (philosophical) responses, and this ...
... recognize this. Loss and hope What have we lost? What can we hope for? Lyotard's death is an ending, but with regard to endings and beginnings there is a sense in which he challenges our accustomed (philosophical) responses, and this ...
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... recognized, within the totalizing discourse: the victim's case is unpresentable within the dominating discourse. Thus, the ethical problem for postmodernity is how to present the unpresentable, how to bear witness to differends. Like ...
... recognized, within the totalizing discourse: the victim's case is unpresentable within the dominating discourse. Thus, the ethical problem for postmodernity is how to present the unpresentable, how to bear witness to differends. Like ...
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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