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• ISBN: 0897894200
• ISBN: 9780897894203
• ISBN: 0897894189
• ISBN: 9780897894180
• Physical Description: xvi, 214 pages ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Author is a New Zealander.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: The Critique of Reason -- 1. Poststructuralism and the Philosophy of the Subject: "The Games of the Will to Power against the Labor of the Dialectic" -- 2. Poststructuralism, Intellectuals and Postmodern Culture -- 3. Against Alain Finkielkraut's The Undoing of Thought: Culture, Education and Postmodernism -- 4. Foucault, Discourse and Education: Neoliberal Governmentality -- 5. Architecture of Resistance: Educational Theory, Postmodernism and the "Politics of Space" -- 6. "After Auschwitz": Ethics and Education Policy -- 7. Science and Education in the "Information Society" -- 8. Vattimo, Postmodernity and the Transparent Society -- 9. Cybernetics, Cyberspace and the University: Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game and the Dream of a Universal Language -- 10. Monoculturalism, Multiculturalism and Democracy: The Politics of Difference or Recognition?

Language Note:

In English.

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Subject:

Critical pedagogy.
Postmodernism.
Education > Political aspects.
Philosophy, French > 20th century.
Politics of education.
Critical pedagogy.
Education > Political aspects.
Philosophy, French.
Postmodernism.

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