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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... responses, Lyotard: just education fills an important gap in the existing literature on Lyotard in general. This lively series of essays provides a timely exploration of the recurrent theme of education in his work, and brings to a ...
... responses, Lyotard: just education fills an important gap in the existing literature on Lyotard in general. This lively series of essays provides a timely exploration of the recurrent theme of education in his work, and brings to a ...
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... response to paradox, with the invention of new rules in the game, is of the order of paralogy. This is a move in the pragmatics of knowledge, a move whose importance may not be recognized until after the event (ibid.: 61). Lyotard wants ...
... response to paradox, with the invention of new rules in the game, is of the order of paralogy. This is a move in the pragmatics of knowledge, a move whose importance may not be recognized until after the event (ibid.: 61). Lyotard wants ...
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... response only through the experience of the sublime. We are at a loss, and we must first bear witness. This might be ... responses, and this through an ethics of time influenced by his teacher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Loss, the sense of ...
... response only through the experience of the sublime. We are at a loss, and we must first bear witness. This might be ... responses, and this through an ethics of time influenced by his teacher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Loss, the sense of ...
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... response to the threat of nihilism, especially as he sees this encroaching on education. While it is clear that nihilism manifests itself most dangerously in performativity, Williams shows how it is also present in some of the responses ...
... response to the threat of nihilism, especially as he sees this encroaching on education. While it is clear that nihilism manifests itself most dangerously in performativity, Williams shows how it is also present in some of the responses ...
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... response that might be offered in terms of Lyotard's writings on the sublime. Lyotard writes of universities in a melancholic grey, Bearn claims, because they, like the system itself, are guided by a unique technical genre of discourse ...
... response that might be offered in terms of Lyotard's writings on the sublime. Lyotard writes of universities in a melancholic grey, Bearn claims, because they, like the system itself, are guided by a unique technical genre of discourse ...
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