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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... Reader in Education at the University of Durham, where he is currently Director of Combined Social Science, and editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education. He teaches environmental ethics and theory of social science as well as ...
... Reader in Education at the University of Durham, where he is currently Director of Combined Social Science, and editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education. He teaches environmental ethics and theory of social science as well as ...
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... readings have often been mobilized by assumptions that link the work to ideas of education as liberatory discourse ... reader's presumption in favor of cool analysis has been frustrated. It would be unrealistic for us to suppose that the ...
... readings have often been mobilized by assumptions that link the work to ideas of education as liberatory discourse ... reader's presumption in favor of cool analysis has been frustrated. It would be unrealistic for us to suppose that the ...
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... reader, Lyotard speaks of the severity of the system, of the terroristic tendencies of a “scientific” establishment that is governed by homeostasis. “Adapt your aspirations to our ends – or else” is perhaps not a very great exaggeration ...
... reader, Lyotard speaks of the severity of the system, of the terroristic tendencies of a “scientific” establishment that is governed by homeostasis. “Adapt your aspirations to our ends – or else” is perhaps not a very great exaggeration ...
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... readings of these ideas and their importance. Let us trace here their main contours. The differend and the sublime Whatever is said is not said in isolation. It depends for its sense on a language game which supplies the rules for its ...
... readings of these ideas and their importance. Let us trace here their main contours. The differend and the sublime Whatever is said is not said in isolation. It depends for its sense on a language game which supplies the rules for its ...
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... reading along the following lines. The introductory and partly expository Chapter 1 is followed by three more or less critical essays that address familiar problems regarding Lyotard's work: his appropriation of Wittgenstein's ideas ...
... reading along the following lines. The introductory and partly expository Chapter 1 is followed by three more or less critical essays that address familiar problems regarding Lyotard's work: his appropriation of Wittgenstein's ideas ...
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