Poststructuralism, Politics and Education

MICHAEL PETERS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He is a contributor to Kanpol and McLaren's Critical Multiculturalism: Uncommon Voices in a Common Struggle (Bergin & Garvey, 1995). and editor of Education and the Postmodern Condition (Bergin & Garvey, 1995), a collection of essays on the signficance of Jean-Francois Lyotard for the field of education.

• Series ForewordPrefaceIntroduction: The Critique of ReasonPoststructuralism and the Philosophy of the Subject: "The Games of the Will to Power Against the Labour of the Dialectic"Poststructuralism, Intellectuals and Postmodern CultureAgainst Alain Finkielkraut's The Undoing of Thought: Culture, Education and PostmodernismFoucault, Discourse and Education: NeoLiberal GovernmentalityArchitecture of Resistance: Education and the "Politics of Space""After Auschwitz": Ethics and Education PolicyScience and Education in the "Information Society"Vattimo, Postmodernity and the Transparent SocietyCybernetics, Cyberspace and the University: Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game and the Dream of a Universal LanguageMonoculturalism, Multiculturalism and Democracy: The Politics of Difference or Recognition?BibliographyIndex