Contending that radical politics needs educational theory, Communist
Study: Education for the Commons poses a series of educational
questions pertinent to revolutionary movements: How can pedagogy
bridge the gap between what is and what can be, while respecting the
gap and its uncertainty and figurality? How can pedagogy accommodate
ambiguity while remaining faithful to the communist project? In
answering these questions, educational theorist Derek R. Ford develops
a pedagogical constellation that radically opens up what education is
and what it can mean for revolutionary struggle. To chart this
constellation, Ford takes the reader on a journey that traverses
disciplinary and ideological boundaries, innovatively reading
theorists as diverse as Agamben, Marx, Lyotard, Butler, and Lenin.
Demonstrating that learning is the educational logic that underpins
capitalism and democracy, Ford articulates a theory of communist study
as an alternative and oppositional logic. Poetic, performative, and
provocative, this theory of study is oriented toward what Ford calls
“the sublime feeling of being-in-common,” which, as he insists, is
always a commonness against.
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ISBN
9781498532457
Publisert
2017
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Lexington Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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