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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777880603321

Autore

Spanos William V

Titolo

The end of education : toward posthumanism / / William V. Spanos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

0-8166-8385-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiv, 277 pages)

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

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"";  The Intellectual and the Posthumanist Occasion: Toward a Decentered Paideia Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A contribution to the ongoing debates about the crisis of the humanities in education - which have exploded into the expansive contexts of ideology, cultural politics, "realpolitik", and humanism itself. Argues for and proposes a post-humanist theory of dialogic pedagogy.