The poststructuralist critique of subject-centered reason is investigated, both historically and theoretically, against the background of the modernity/postmodernity and information society debates. Peters criticizes neoliberal constructions of the subject in education that rest heavily on the assumption of economic man. He searches for viable contemporary political forms by investigating the role of intellectuals and education in postmodern culture; the neoliberal doctrine of the self-limiting state; and its construction of market subjects such as education and the politics of space, ethics after Auschwitz, science and technology, the critical role of mass media, cybernetics and cyberspace, democracy and the politics of difference.
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and its construction of market subjects such as education and the politics of space, ethics after Auschwitz, science and technology, the critical role of mass media, cybernetics and cyberspace, democracy and the politics of difference.
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Series Foreword Preface Introduction: The Critique of Reason Poststructuralism and the Philosophy of the Subject: "The Games of the Will to Power Against the Labour of the Dialectic" Poststructuralism, Intellectuals and Postmodern Culture Against Alain Finkielkraut's The Undoing of Thought: Culture, Education and Postmodernism Foucault, Discourse and Education: NeoLiberal Governmentality Architecture of Resistance: Education and the "Politics of Space" "After Auschwitz": Ethics and Education Policy Science and Education in the "Information Society" Vattimo, Postmodernity and the Transparent Society Cybernetics, Cyberspace and the University: Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game and the Dream of a Universal Language Monoculturalism, Multiculturalism and Democracy: The Politics of Difference or Recognition? Bibliography Index
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A poststructural critique of current neoliberal philosophy and policy in education.
The aim of this interdisciplinary series is to create critical spaces for pedagogical and political interventions in both school and cultural sites. The titles represent a mix of approaches including historical, bibliographical, critical, sociological, economic, and ethnographic.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780897894203
Publisert
1996-03-20
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Praeger Publishers Inc
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
232

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Om bidragsyterne

MICHAEL PETERS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He is a contributor to Kanpol and McLaren's Critical Multiculturalism: Uncommon Voices in a Common Struggle (Bergin & Garvey, 1995). and editor of Education and the Postmodern Condition (Bergin & Garvey, 1995), a collection of essays on the signficance of Jean-Francois Lyotard for the field of education.