Poststructuralism, politics, and education

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Poststructuralism, politics, and education

Michael Peters

(Critical studies in education and culture series)

Bergin & Garvey, 1996

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-206) and index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780897894180

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780897894203

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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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