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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... legitimation, and accountability; on democracy, citizenship, and globalization; on colonialism and multiculturalism, pluralism and relativism; on capitalism, Marxism, and feminism; on rights and duties, privileges and obligations; on ...
... legitimation, and accountability; on democracy, citizenship, and globalization; on colonialism and multiculturalism, pluralism and relativism; on capitalism, Marxism, and feminism; on rights and duties, privileges and obligations; on ...
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... legitimated with reference to a grand narrative of some kind – of the dialectics of Spirit, of the emancipation of ... legitimating it with new rules in the game of reasoning (Lyotard 1984a: 54). This is not, it should be emphasized ...
... legitimated with reference to a grand narrative of some kind – of the dialectics of Spirit, of the emancipation of ... legitimating it with new rules in the game of reasoning (Lyotard 1984a: 54). This is not, it should be emphasized ...
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... legitimation (ibid.: 27). And indeed the provocation of this vocabulary becomes more acute. Acknowledging the risk of scandalizing the reader, Lyotard speaks of the severity of the system, of the terroristic tendencies of a “scientific ...
... legitimation (ibid.: 27). And indeed the provocation of this vocabulary becomes more acute. Acknowledging the risk of scandalizing the reader, Lyotard speaks of the severity of the system, of the terroristic tendencies of a “scientific ...
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... legitimation of higher education by recourse to small narratives, a legitimation in the absence of any larger story of how universities fit in to the rest of our social life. Performativity might then be resisted through the development ...
... legitimation of higher education by recourse to small narratives, a legitimation in the absence of any larger story of how universities fit in to the rest of our social life. Performativity might then be resisted through the development ...
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... legitimated through paralogy, by the injection of dissensus into consensus. The chapter pursues Lyotard's hopes that paralogy might serve to displace and minimize performativity, and so resist capitalism. This legitimation is not so ...
... legitimated through paralogy, by the injection of dissensus into consensus. The chapter pursues Lyotard's hopes that paralogy might serve to displace and minimize performativity, and so resist capitalism. This legitimation is not so ...
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