Education, Philosophy and Politics : the Selected Works of Michael A. Peters.

Education, Philosophy and Politics : the Selected Works of Michael A. Peters.

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Main Author: Peters, Michael A. A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Subjects:
Education > Philosophy.
Political science > Philosophy.
Education > Philosophy
Political science > Philosophy
Education.
Social Sciences.
Theory & Practice of Education.
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Table of Contents:
  • Education, Philosophy and Politics The selected works of Michael A. Peters; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: education, philosophy and politics; Notes; References; CHAPTER 1 Philosophy as pedagogy: Wittgenstein's styles of thinking; Introduction; Wittgenstein as philosophy teacher; Wittgenstein, teaching and philosophy; The style of the Investigations: dialogue and pedagogy; Notes; References; CHAPTER2 Writing the self: Wittgenstein, confession and pedagogy; Introduction; Culture and Value
  • autobiosophy/philography; Confession as a redeemed 'philosophical' genre.
  • Reading and writing the selfNotes; References; CHAPTER3 Nietzsche, nihilism and the critique of modernity: post-Nietzschean philosophy of education; Introduction; Nietzsche and the analytic/Continental divide; Nietzsche and the critique of modernity; Habermas, Nietzsche, and the question of postmodernity; Note; References; CHAPTER4 Heidegger, education and modernity; The reception of Heidegger; Heidegger's critique of modernity; Heidegger, politics and Nazism; Sources of Heidegger's anti-modernism; Beyond modernity?; Notes; References.
  • CHAPTER5 Truth-telling as an educational practice of the self: Foucault and the ethics of subjectivityIntroduction; Foucault on truth: from regimes to games of truth; Parrhesia, education and practices of truth-telling; Conclusion: Foucault and the prospects for parrhesiastical education; Notes; References; CHAPTER6 Neoliberal governmentality: Foucault on the birth of biopolitics; Introduction; German neoliberalism and the birth of biopolitics; German neoliberalism and the birth of the European social model; Notes; References; CHAPTER7 Lyotard, nihilism and education.
  • Introduction: the problem of nihilism in educationA brief history of European nihilism
  • Nietzsche and Heidegger; Lyotard and European nihilism; Language-games and The Postmodern Condition; Lyotard's passage to The Differend; Notes; References; CHAPTER8 Gilles Deleuze's 'societies of control': from disciplinary pedagogy to perpetual training; Introduction; Disciplinary societies, disciplinary pedagogies; Deleuze's 'societies of control' and continuous education; Notes; References; CHAPTER9 Geophilosophy, education and the pedagogy of the concept; Introduction; Philosophy as concept creation.
  • GeophilosophyAn excursus: the principle of territory and the geography of reason; Capitalism, philosophy and the state; Notes; References; CHAPTER10 Humanism, Derrida and the new humanities; Introduction; Renaissance humanism and education; Martin Heidegger's Letter on Humanism; Derrida, humanism and the new humanities; Notes; References; CHAPTER11 Politics and deconstruction: Derrida, neoliberalism and democracy to come; Introduction: politics and deconstruction; Derrida, neoliberalism and anti-Nietzscheanism: re-writing the subject; Democracy to come; Notes; References.

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