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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... suggests, the building and mastery of a world economy do not contribute to the reduction of inequalities. It is, of course, possible to draw distinctions between the author, his work, and his historical context, but the “biosophical ...
... suggests, the building and mastery of a world economy do not contribute to the reduction of inequalities. It is, of course, possible to draw distinctions between the author, his work, and his historical context, but the “biosophical ...
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... suggests that they cannot be co-present in any one utterance. It is perhaps Lyotard's conception of utterances as incommensurable but therefore univocal that prevents him from seeing this. What is most potent in the politics of ...
... suggests that they cannot be co-present in any one utterance. It is perhaps Lyotard's conception of utterances as incommensurable but therefore univocal that prevents him from seeing this. What is most potent in the politics of ...
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... suggesting that failure to cultivate the imagination in this way threatens one of the means that might lead toward the achieving of social justice. The ability to think differently is developed through literature, writing, and ...
... suggesting that failure to cultivate the imagination in this way threatens one of the means that might lead toward the achieving of social justice. The ability to think differently is developed through literature, writing, and ...
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... suggests, that such rules and regulations do not necessarily undermine individuality and subjectivity because they are regulative rather than determinant. With regulative rules aimed at the ensuring of maximum game playing, inventive ...
... suggests, that such rules and regulations do not necessarily undermine individuality and subjectivity because they are regulative rather than determinant. With regulative rules aimed at the ensuring of maximum game playing, inventive ...
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... suggest a kind of work and friendship whose life-force comes from elsewhere than from the utilitarian, being lyrical rather than economic or cognitive. Freed from the connotations and criteria of productivity, it is seen to realize a ...
... suggest a kind of work and friendship whose life-force comes from elsewhere than from the utilitarian, being lyrical rather than economic or cognitive. Freed from the connotations and criteria of productivity, it is seen to realize a ...
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