Michael A. Peters

Education, Philosophy and Politics (eBook, PDF)

The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Michael Peters has spent the last 30 years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in education. He has contributed over 50 books and 500 articles to the field. In this book, Michael Peters brings together 15 of his key writings in one place, including chapters from his best-selling books and articles from leading journals. Starting with a specially written Introduction, which gives an overview of Michael's career and contextualises his selection, the chapters are divided into five sections:

* Wittgenstein Studies

* Philosophical Critique of Modernity

* French Poststructuralism

* American Pragmatism

* Applied educational philosophy

Through this book, readers can track the themes and strands that Michael Peters has written about for over three decades and follow his important contribution to the field of education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136581908
• Artikelnr.: 38452447

Autorenporträt

Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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