TY - BOOK AU - Peters,Michael TI - Education, philosophy and politics: the selected works of Michael A. Peters T2 - World library of educationalists series SN - 9780415686051 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - LB885.P47 A3 2012 U1 - 370.1 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, New York PB - Routlede KW - Peters, Michael KW - Education KW - Philosophy KW - Political science N1 - 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 ER -