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 Foreword Preface Introduction: The Critique of Reason Poststructuralism and the Philosophy of the Subject: "The Games of the Will to Power Against the Labour of the Dialectic" Poststructuralism, Intellectuals and Postmodern Culture Against Alain Finkielkraut's The Undoing of Thought: Culture, Education and Postmodernism Foucault, Discourse and Education: NeoLiberal Governmentality Architecture of Resistance: Education and the "Politics of Space" "After Auschwitz": Ethics and Education Policy Science and Education in the "Information Society" Vattimo, Postmodernity and the Transparent Society Cybernetics, Cyberspace and the University: Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game and the Dream of a Universal Language Monoculturalism, Multiculturalism and Democracy: The Politics of Difference or Recognition? Bibliography Index