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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... claims, and the politics of knowledge: Habermas, Lyotard, and higher education 54 NIGEL BLAKE 4 Overcoming capitalism: Lyotard's pessimism and Rorty's prophecy 73 J. M. FRITZMAN 5 Lyotard as moral educator 97 A. T. NUYEN 6 The sublime ...
... claims, and the politics of knowledge: Habermas, Lyotard, and higher education 54 NIGEL BLAKE 4 Overcoming capitalism: Lyotard's pessimism and Rorty's prophecy 73 J. M. FRITZMAN 5 Lyotard as moral educator 97 A. T. NUYEN 6 The sublime ...
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... claims: “The true goal of the system, the reason it programs itself like a computer is the optimization of the global relationship between input and output: performativity” (ibid.). And this term aptly connotes the jargon of efficiency ...
... claims: “The true goal of the system, the reason it programs itself like a computer is the optimization of the global relationship between input and output: performativity” (ibid.). And this term aptly connotes the jargon of efficiency ...
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... claims, the inexhaustible reserve of possible utterances would prevent fixation in an equilibrium. Such a politics would respect both the desire for justice and the desire for the unknown (ibid.: 67). If the suggestion of ...
... claims, the inexhaustible reserve of possible utterances would prevent fixation in an equilibrium. Such a politics would respect both the desire for justice and the desire for the unknown (ibid.: 67). If the suggestion of ...
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... claims, and the politics of knowledge: Habermas, Lyotard, and higher education.” Here again there is a concern that Lyotard is in danger of advocating dissent to no purpose, an aestheticization of dissent. The broad educational question ...
... claims, and the politics of knowledge: Habermas, Lyotard, and higher education.” Here again there is a concern that Lyotard is in danger of advocating dissent to no purpose, an aestheticization of dissent. The broad educational question ...
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... claim that we have to do something about these wrongs, that we cannot let them go unnoticed. A wrong of this kind arises in the first place by virtue of the fact that the victim's rules of discourse are not valid, or not recognized ...
... claim that we have to do something about these wrongs, that we cannot let them go unnoticed. A wrong of this kind arises in the first place by virtue of the fact that the victim's rules of discourse are not valid, or not recognized ...
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