What is Education?

A. J. Bartlett is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Research Unit in European Philosophy at Monash University. He is the author of Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths (Edinburgh University Press, hb 2011, pb 2015) and translator, with Alex Ling, of Badiou's Mathematics of the Transcendental (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). Justin Clemens is Associate Professor in Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on psychoanalysis, contemporary European philosophy and Australian art and literature. His recent books include What is Education? edited with A.J. Bartlett and The Afterlives of Georges Perec edited with Rowan Wilken.

• Introduction. What is Education? A Polemical Question A. J. Bartlett & Justin ClemensEducation: not impossible A. J. Bartlett Education and the Enclosure of Knowledge in the Global UniversitySilvia Federici Knowledge Enclosure & University Education: Notes from ‘Post-restructured’ Bangladesh Mushahid HussainBeyond the Human State: Bergson, Education, and the Art of LifeKeith Ansell-PearsonThe master and the professor are dead, and I am not feeling well myselfMladen DolarHerod, the Ogre… and Miss Cooper’s rifle: Education as a refuge for childhood and the worldJorge LarrosaParlomurs: A Dialogue on Corruption in Education Alessandro RussoWhen shall we go…?Judith BalsoBibliography

This book sets itself a difficult and essential task: nothing less than opening a new epoch of thought on the practice of what education is.