Michael A. Peters, Tina Besley

Pandemic Education and Viral Politics (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Michael A. Peters, working with three co-authors, explores human resilience and the collective response to catastrophe, and the philosophy and literature of pandemics, including 'love and social distancing in the time of Covid-19.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000282351
• Artikelnr.: 60119309

Autorenporträt

Michael A. Peters is Distinguished Professor of Education at Beijing Normal University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois. He is the Executive Editor of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory. His interests are in education, philosophy and social policy, and he is the author of over 100 books, including The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future (2019), Wittgenstein, Education and Rationality (2020) and Wittgenstein: Antifoundationalism, Technoscience and Education (2020).

Tina Besley is Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. She is Founding President of the Association for Visual Pedagogies (AVP) and Immediate Past President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). She has published over 12 books and many articles and is Deputy Editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory and the Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy, and an Associate Editor for the Beijing International Review of Education. She works closely with Professor Michael A. Peters and with a wide international network of scholars.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: education, philosophy and viral politics 2. Viral
modernity? Epidemics, infodemics, and the 'bioinformational' paradigm 3. A
viral theory of post-truth 4. On the epistemology of conspiracy 5. Love and
social distancing in the time of Covid-19: the philosophy and literature of
pandemics 6. The Plague: human resilience and the collective response to
catastrophe 7. Philosophy and pandemic in the postdigital era: Foucault,
Agamben, iek 8. The disorder of things: quarantine unemployment, the
decline of neoliberalism, and the Covid-19 crash 9. 'Reality is an activity
of the most august imagination'. When the world stops, it's not a complete
disaster - we can hear the birds sing! 10. The Chinese dream encounters
COVID-19 11. Biopolitics, conspiracy and the immuno-state: an evolving
global politico-genetic complex