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Education, philosophy and politics : the selected works of Michael A. Peters / Michael A. Peters.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: World library of educationalists seriesPublication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routlede, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 226 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415686051 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0415686059 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780415686068 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0415686067 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780203155899 (ebook : alk. paper)
  • 0203155890 (ebook : alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Works. Selections. 2012
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.1 23
LOC classification:
  • LB885.P47 A3 2012
  • LB885 .PET 2012
Contents:
Introduction: education, philosophy and politics -- Writing the self: Wittgenstein, confession and pedagogy -- Nietzsche, nihilism and the critique of modernity: post-Nietzschean philosophy of education -- Heidegger, education and modernity -- Truth-telling as an educational practice of the self: Foucault and the ethics of subjectivity -- Neoliberal governmentality: Foucault on the birth of biopolitics -- Lyotard, nihilism and education -- Gilles Deleuze's 'societies of control': from disciplinary pedagogy to perpetual training -- Geophilosophy, education and the pedagogy of the concept - Humanism, Derrida and the new humanities -- Politics and deconstruction: Derrida, neoliberalism and democracy -- Neopragmatism, ethnocentrism and the politics of the ethnos: Rorty's 'postmodernist bourgeois liberalism' -- Achieving America: postmodernism and Rorty's critique of the cultural left -- Deranging the investigations: Cavell on the philosophy of the child -- White philosophy in/of America.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: education, philosophy and politics -- Writing the self: Wittgenstein, confession and pedagogy -- Nietzsche, nihilism and the critique of modernity: post-Nietzschean philosophy of education -- Heidegger, education and modernity -- Truth-telling as an educational practice of the self: Foucault and the ethics of subjectivity -- Neoliberal governmentality: Foucault on the birth of biopolitics -- Lyotard, nihilism and education -- Gilles Deleuze's 'societies of control': from disciplinary pedagogy to perpetual training -- Geophilosophy, education and the pedagogy of the concept - Humanism, Derrida and the new humanities -- Politics and deconstruction: Derrida, neoliberalism and democracy -- Neopragmatism, ethnocentrism and the politics of the ethnos: Rorty's 'postmodernist bourgeois liberalism' -- Achieving America: postmodernism and Rorty's critique of the cultural left -- Deranging the investigations: Cavell on the philosophy of the child -- White philosophy in/of America.

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