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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... given set of principles. They lie rather within fractured contexts and demand a focus on the fault-lines along which such fracturing has taken place. For both Weber and Lyotard these changes have come at considerable human cost. The ...
... given set of principles. They lie rather within fractured contexts and demand a focus on the fault-lines along which such fracturing has taken place. For both Weber and Lyotard these changes have come at considerable human cost. The ...
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... given free access to the memory and data banks, free access, let us say, to the Internet. Then, he claims, the inexhaustible reserve of possible utterances would prevent fixation in an equilibrium. Such a politics would respect both the ...
... given free access to the memory and data banks, free access, let us say, to the Internet. Then, he claims, the inexhaustible reserve of possible utterances would prevent fixation in an equilibrium. Such a politics would respect both the ...
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... given to The Postmodern Condition, but it is regrettable if exploration ends with this book. Powerful indictment of the problems facing contemporary higher education, and telling evocation of the nature of performativity as it ...
... given to The Postmodern Condition, but it is regrettable if exploration ends with this book. Powerful indictment of the problems facing contemporary higher education, and telling evocation of the nature of performativity as it ...
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... given a mastery of the country's language. . . . We do not understand the people . . . we cannot find ourselves in them. (Wittgenstein 1997: 223) Lyotard explained his attraction to Wittgenstein's work in terms of its being a philosophy ...
... given a mastery of the country's language. . . . We do not understand the people . . . we cannot find ourselves in them. (Wittgenstein 1997: 223) Lyotard explained his attraction to Wittgenstein's work in terms of its being a philosophy ...
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... given, toward increase of being and jubilation. Lynda Stone's essay, an exploration of “Lyotard's women,” is an attempt to assess the possibility of feminism in Lyotard's writings. The notion of the unpresentable, accompanied by ...
... given, toward increase of being and jubilation. Lynda Stone's essay, an exploration of “Lyotard's women,” is an attempt to assess the possibility of feminism in Lyotard's writings. The notion of the unpresentable, accompanied by ...
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