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Autore |
Spanos William V |
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Titolo |
The end of education [[electronic resource] ] : toward posthumanism / / William V. Spanos |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Collana |
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Pedagogy and cultural practice ; ; v. 1 |
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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. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-270) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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