William F. Pinar is Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

'Pinar is one of the most distinguished, astute, and creative scholars shaping the field of educational studies today. In this new, provocative, original and demanding study, Pinar takes the field into difficult beginnings by analysing the origins of Western racism and violence. This book deserves wide discussion and debate.' - Deborah P. Britzman, Professor of Education, York University and author of Novel Education: Psychoanalytic Studies of Learning and Not Learning

• Introduction In the Beginning Inside the Tent The Specularity of Alterity Outside the Tent Decadence, Disorientation, Degeneration An Epistemology of the Body The Curse of the Covenant The Sodomitical Subjectivity of Race