Michael A. Peters is research professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.Colin Lankshear is a freelance educational researcher and writer based in Mexico and a professorial fellow at the University of Ballarat. Mark Olssen is reader and director of doctoral programs in educational studies at the University of Surrey, England.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Futures of Critical Theory: Dreams of DifferenceChapter 2 1. Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Critique of ModernityChapter 3 2. A Critical Theory of the Self: Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, FoucaultChapter 4 3. From the Question Concerning Technology to the Quest for a Democratic Technology: Heidegger, Marcuse, FeenbergChapter 5 4. Foucault and Critique: Kant, Humanism and the Human SciencesChapter 6 5. Levinas's Ethico-Political Order Of Human Proximity: "The Quest For Justice"Chapter 7 6. "Looking for Allies": Gilles Deleuze as Critical TheoristChapter 8 7. Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction = JusticeChapter 9 8. The Postmodern Condition: Lyotard's FuturologyChapter 10 9. Of Being TwoChapter 11 10. Pierre Bourdieu: The Craft of SociologyChapter 12 11. Slavoj Zizek's Naked Politics: Opting for the Impossible A Secondary ElaborationChapter 13 12. Anthony Giddens - The Last Global TheoristChapter 14 13. Cyberfeminism with a DifferenceChapter 15 14. Edward Said: The Locatedness of TheoryChapter 16 15. "Anti-Globalization" and Guattari's The Three Ecologies

Michael A. Peters is research professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.Colin Lankshear is a freelance educational researcher and writer based in Mexico and a professorial fellow at the University of Ballarat. Mark Olssen is reader and director of doctoral programs in educational studies at the University of Surrey, England.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Futures of Critical Theory: Dreams of DifferenceChapter 2 1. Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Critique of ModernityChapter 3 2. A Critical Theory of the Self: Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, FoucaultChapter 4 3. From the Question Concerning Technology to the Quest for a Democratic Technology: Heidegger, Marcuse, FeenbergChapter 5 4. Foucault and Critique: Kant, Humanism and the Human SciencesChapter 6 5. Levinas's Ethico-Political Order Of Human Proximity: "The Quest For Justice"Chapter 7 6. "Looking for Allies": Gilles Deleuze as Critical TheoristChapter 8 7. Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction = JusticeChapter 9 8. The Postmodern Condition: Lyotard's FuturologyChapter 10 9. Of Being TwoChapter 11 10. Pierre Bourdieu: The Craft of SociologyChapter 12 11. Slavoj Zizek's Naked Politics: Opting for the Impossible A Secondary ElaborationChapter 13 12. Anthony Giddens - The Last Global TheoristChapter 14 13. Cyberfeminism with a DifferenceChapter 15 14. Edward Said: The Locatedness of TheoryChapter 16 15. "Anti-Globalization" and Guattari's The Three Ecologies

Michael A. Peters is research professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.Colin Lankshear is a freelance educational researcher and writer based in Mexico and a professorial fellow at the University of Ballarat. Mark Olssen is reader and director of doctoral programs in educational studies at the University of Surrey, England.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Futures of Critical Theory: Dreams of DifferenceChapter 2 1. Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Critique of ModernityChapter 3 2. A Critical Theory of the Self: Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, FoucaultChapter 4 3. From the Question Concerning Technology to the Quest for a Democratic Technology: Heidegger, Marcuse, FeenbergChapter 5 4. Foucault and Critique: Kant, Humanism and the Human SciencesChapter 6 5. Levinas's Ethico-Political Order Of Human Proximity: "The Quest For Justice"Chapter 7 6. "Looking for Allies": Gilles Deleuze as Critical TheoristChapter 8 7. Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction = JusticeChapter 9 8. The Postmodern Condition: Lyotard's FuturologyChapter 10 9. Of Being TwoChapter 11 10. Pierre Bourdieu: The Craft of SociologyChapter 12 11. Slavoj Zizek's Naked Politics: Opting for the Impossible A Secondary ElaborationChapter 13 12. Anthony Giddens - The Last Global TheoristChapter 14 13. Cyberfeminism with a DifferenceChapter 15 14. Edward Said: The Locatedness of TheoryChapter 16 15. "Anti-Globalization" and Guattari's The Three Ecologies