The end of education : toward posthumanism /

In this groundbreaking work, William V. Spanos offers a powerful contribution to the impassioned debates about the crisis of the humanities. Drawing from various discourses of contemporary theory (primarily from Heidegger and Foucault), The End of Education constitutes a deconstruction of the discou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spanos, William V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.
Series:Pedagogy and cultural practice ; v. 1.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Humanistic Understanding and the Onto-theo-logical Tradition: The Ideology of Vision
  • 2. Humanistic Inquiry and the Politics of the Gaze
  • 3. The Apollonian Investment of Modern Humanist Educational Theory: The Examples of Matthew Arnold, Irving Babbitt, and I.A. Richards
  • 4. The Violence of Disinterestedness: A Genealogy of the Educational "Reform" Initiative in the 1980s
  • 5. The University in the Vietnam Decade: The "Crisis of Command" and the "Refusal of Spontaneous Consent"
  • 6. The Intellectual and the Posthumanist Occasion: Toward a Decentered Paideia.