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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... provides a timely exploration of the recurrent theme of education in his work, and brings to a wider audience the significance of this body of thought about education that is subtle, profound and largely unexplored. The authors argue ...
... provides a timely exploration of the recurrent theme of education in his work, and brings to a wider audience the significance of this body of thought about education that is subtle, profound and largely unexplored. The authors argue ...
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... provide the funds. This is a product not of science itself but of the socio-economic system, and it is one in which misunderstanding of science is an important factor. Science itself is open: a statement is relevant if it generates ...
... provide the funds. This is a product not of science itself but of the socio-economic system, and it is one in which misunderstanding of science is an important factor. Science itself is open: a statement is relevant if it generates ...
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... provides a direction for our universalist longings. Unlike Kant, however, it is in art that Lyotard seeks this rather than in nature. In the Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein writes: We also say of some people that they are ...
... provides a direction for our universalist longings. Unlike Kant, however, it is in art that Lyotard seeks this rather than in nature. In the Philosophical Investigations Wittgenstein writes: We also say of some people that they are ...
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... provides the impetus to the possibility of new thought, to thought that might lead beyond the impasse of these irreconcilable ways of being. Testifying to this incompatibility, it calls upon, and calls for, what is not yet thought. Of ...
... provides the impetus to the possibility of new thought, to thought that might lead beyond the impasse of these irreconcilable ways of being. Testifying to this incompatibility, it calls upon, and calls for, what is not yet thought. Of ...
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... provide: no totality of Marx; no Husserlian eidetic reduction, receding into Cartesian modernity; no Leibnizian or Russellian metaphysics. Lyotard wants to give up these totalities, though not the critical impulse that he finds in them ...
... provide: no totality of Marx; no Husserlian eidetic reduction, receding into Cartesian modernity; no Leibnizian or Russellian metaphysics. Lyotard wants to give up these totalities, though not the critical impulse that he finds in them ...
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