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Author:   Michael A. Peters (Beijing Normal University, China)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.340kg
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9780415686068

ISBN 10:   0415686067
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   30 September 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction. Educational Philosophy and Politics 1. Philosophy as Pedagogy: Wittgenstein’s Styles of Thinking 2. Writing the Self: Wittgenstein, Confession and Pedagogy 3. Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Critique of Modernity: Post-Nietzschean Philosophy of Education 4. Heidegger, Education and Modernity 5. Truth-Telling as an Educational Practice of the Self: Foucault, Parrhesia and the Ethics of Subjectivity 6. Neoliberal Governmentality: Foucault on the Birth of Biopolitics 7. Lyotard, Nihilism and Education 8. Gilles Deleuze's ‘Societies of Control’: From Disciplinary Pedagogy to Perpetual Training 9. Geophilosophy, Education and the Pedagogy of the Concept 10. Humanism, Derrida, and the New Humanities 11. Politics and Deconstruction: Derrida, Neoliberalism, and Democracy to Come 12. Ethnocentrism and the Politics of the Ethnos: Rorty’s ‘Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism’ 13. Achieving America: Postmodernism and Rorty's Critique of the Cultural Left 14. Deranging the Investigations: Cavell on the Philosophy of the Child 15. White Philosophy in/of America

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Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). He held a personal chair at the University of Auckland, NZ (2000-03) and Research Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK (2000-05), as well as numerous posts as adjunct and visiting professor throughout the world. He is the executive editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Blackwell) and editor of two international ejournals, Policy Futures in Education and E-Learning (both with Symposium) and sits on the editorial board of over fifteen international journals. He has written over thirty-five books and three hundred articles and chapters, including most recently: Global Citizenship Education (Sense, 2008); Global Knowledge Cultures (Sense, 2007); Subjectivity and Truth: Foucault, Education and the Culture of Self (Peter Lang, 2007); Why Foucault? New Directions in Educational Research (Peter Lang, 2007), Building Knowledge Cultures: Educational and Development in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), and Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of the University (Sense, 2007). He has a strong research interests in distributed knowledge systems, digital scholarship and elearning systems and has acted as an advisor to government on these and related matters in Scotland, NZ, South Africa and the EU.

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