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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... representation ofjustice, manifested in education within formal institutions and in the practices of daily life; hence his interest in the difference such concerns present for the learning and enactment of citizenship. In his view ...
... representation ofjustice, manifested in education within formal institutions and in the practices of daily life; hence his interest in the difference such concerns present for the learning and enactment of citizenship. In his view ...
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... representation and resolution of the past. During the last few years of his life Lyotard taught at the Comparative Literature Department of Emory University, and in 1999 a symposium was held there in his honour. Speaking on that ...
... representation and resolution of the past. During the last few years of his life Lyotard taught at the Comparative Literature Department of Emory University, and in 1999 a symposium was held there in his honour. Speaking on that ...
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... representation is evoked here through Lyotard's dystopian vision of globalization in the megalopolis. The totalitarian threat that this poses is not generally the result of any conspiracy or malevolent wielding of power; on the contrary ...
... representation is evoked here through Lyotard's dystopian vision of globalization in the megalopolis. The totalitarian threat that this poses is not generally the result of any conspiracy or malevolent wielding of power; on the contrary ...
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... representation. Seeking socialjustice by evoking “names” becomes a suspect activity and, given the social and political practices that Lyotard believes such evocations may come to underwrite, one should be on one's guard against the ...
... representation. Seeking socialjustice by evoking “names” becomes a suspect activity and, given the social and political practices that Lyotard believes such evocations may come to underwrite, one should be on one's guard against the ...
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Contents
1 | |
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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