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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
c1993.
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| 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.