This book sets itself a difficult and essential task: nothing less than opening a new epoch of thought on the practice of what education is.

Alain Badiou

This book sets itself a difficult and essential task: nothing less than opening a new epoch of thought on the practice of what education is.

- Alain Badiou,

What is education? This volume collects some of the foremost voices in contemporary thought to think through this question from their unique perspectives. Revealing the contentions and possibilities of a new engagement with the question of education, it provides fresh insights into education: what it is, what it is not, and what is to be done about it. At a time when education is so important as to be considered an essential ‘human right’, and yet is under attack from funding cuts, government policies and fundamentalists, this book will open the thinking on education onto new and important territory.
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This volume collects some of the foremost voices in contemporary thought to think through this question from their unique perspectives. Revealing the contentions and possibilities of a new engagement with the question of education, it provides fresh insights into education: what it is, what it is not, and what is to be done about it.
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Introduction. What is Education? A Polemical Question A. J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens Education: not impossible A. J. Bartlett Education and the Enclosure of Knowledge in the Global UniversitySilvia Federici Knowledge Enclosure & University Education: Notes from ‘Post-restructured’ Bangladesh Mushahid Hussain Beyond the Human State: Bergson, Education, and the Art of LifeKeith Ansell-Pearson The master and the professor are dead, and I am not feeling well myselfMladen Dolar Herod, the Ogre… and Miss Cooper’s rifle: Education as a refuge for childhood and the worldJorge Larrosa Parlomurs: A Dialogue on Corruption in Education Alessandro Russo When shall we go…?Judith Balso Bibliography
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780748675326
Publisert
2017-07-03
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
288

Biografisk notat

A. J. Bartlett is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Research Unit in European Philosophy at Monash University. He is the author of Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths (Edinburgh University Press, hb 2011, pb 2015) and translator, with Alex Ling, of Badiou's Mathematics of the Transcendental (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). Justin Clemens is Associate Professor in Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on psychoanalysis, contemporary European philosophy and Australian art and literature. His recent books include What is Education? edited with A.J. Bartlett and The Afterlives of Georges Perec edited with Rowan Wilken.