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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451512103321

Autore

Spanos William V

Titolo

The end of education [[electronic resource] ] : toward posthumanism / / William V. Spanos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993

ISBN

0-8166-8385-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Pedagogy and cultural practice ; ; v. 1

Disciplina

370.1120973

Soggetti

Education, Higher - United States - Philosophy

Humanism

Education, Humanistic - United States - History - 20th century

Education, Higher - Curricula - United States - History - 20th century

Educational change - United States - History - 20th century

Educational anthropology - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-270) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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 1980's; 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 Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 discourse and practice of the modern humanist university. Spanos uses and transforms Heidegger's critique of the centered circle of Being in metaphysical, scientific, and



humanist discourses and Foucault's critique of the panoptic gaze of disciplinary society to disclose the interplay between ontology and