Jean-François Lyotard

Dr Kirsten Locke is Lecturer in philosophy of education in the Faculty of Education and Social Work in the School of Critical Studies in Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has published in international journals on Jean-François Lyotard, education, and philosophy of education. Her research interests explore the areas of gender, feminist theories, theories of affect and aesthetics and their relation to the aims and purposes of education.

• Chapter 1. The Professor as Pedagogue.- Chapter 2. Pedagogies of Affect with Lyotard’s Freud.- Chapter 3. Infancy and Childhood in Education: Lyotard’s Pedagogies of the Possible.- Chapter 4. Lyotard’s Musical Pedagogy: Listening for the Inaudible Gesture in Education.- Chapter 5. Mattering Lyotard: From the Postmodern to the Sublime as the Condition of Education.

“Elegantly written, this short book will challenge, provoke and potentially delight the readers who maintain an openness to its possibilities, and the revaluation of Lyotard it offers for educational studies.” (Kiff Bamford, New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 57, 2022)