Micheal Peters is thoroughly immersed in the 'politics of poststructualism' but expresses his ideas with an enviable clarity and power. For anyone trying to understand what holds poststructuralism, as a 'movement of thought,' together, this is the place to start.
- Stephen J. Ball, University of London,
An outstanding book. . . Michael Peters provides an excellent critical survey of several major twentieth century French thinkers who either respond to or play against poststructuralist ideas and values as they grapple with political challenges of neoliberalism, globalization, and the rise of a knowledge economy . . . very readable and theoretically important.
- Timothy Luke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Peters provocatively challenges many misreadings of poststructural (and postmodern) writings on political and cultural analysis. He shows the relation and divergences of this writing to Marxism and finally, provides ways in which to seriously rethink the political in contemporary life. <i>Poststructuralism, Marxism, and Neoliberalism</i> is well-written, lucid in argument, and insightful in how it moves the philosophical discourses into policy and political analysis.
- Tom Popkewitz, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Chapter 1 Introduction: The Politics of Poststructuralism
Chapter 2 Poststructuralist Marxisms
Chapter 3 Lyotard, Performativity, and the Problem of Capitalism
Chapter 4 Derrida, Neoliberalism, and Democracy to Come
Chapter 5 Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Governance of Welfare
Chapter 6 Deluze's "Societies of Control": From Disciplinary Pedagogy to Perpetual Training in the Knowledge Economy
Chapter 7 Neoliberalism, Individualism and Global Futures
Chapter 8 Bibliography
Chapter 9 Index