Thinking Education Through Alain Badiou
ISBN: 9781444337426 | 1444337424
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 10/12/2010
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In 1993 the French philosopher Alain Badiou published Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, a scathing examination and reformulation of the discourse of evil in contemporary society. Upon its English translation in 2001 - along with his magnus opus, Being and Event, which was translated in 2007 - Badiou will take his place alongside Foucault, Derrida, and Levinas as a major French influence on the Anglo-American philosophical scene. Yet Badiou's critiques of postmodern philosophy, hermeneutics, and ethics based on the 'other' seriously... MORE
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Foreword | |
| Introduction: Alain Badiou: 'Becoming subject' to education | |
| Badiou, Pedagogy and the Arts | |
| Badiou's Challenge to Art and its Education: Or, 'art cannot be taught-it can however educate!' | |
| Alain Badiou, Jacques Lacan and the Ethics of Teaching | |
| Reconceptualizing Professional Development for Curriculum Leadership: Inspired by John Dewey and informed b... MORE | |
| The Obliteration of Truth by Management: Badiou, St. Paul and the question of economic managerialism in education | |
| Militants of Truth, Communities of Equality: Badiou and the ignorant schoolmaster | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Kent den Heyer is Associate Professor in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. Dr. den Heyer has published and presented research internationally on student and teacher interpretations of the conditions necessary for social change, psychoanalytic approaches to anti-racist education, and curriculum theory.
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