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Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptic survivalIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Postscript : zombie education and culture in the global apocalypse : pdagogies of the walking deadIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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The armageddon club : education for the future of humanityIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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The coming pandemic eraIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Life and death in the anthropocene : educating for survival amid climate and ecosystem changes and potential civilisation collapseIn Michael A. Peters (ed.), Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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The threat of nuclear war : peace studies in an apocalyptic ageIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Education for ecological democracyIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Russian apocalypse, Christian fascism and the dangers of a limited nuclear warIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Declinism' and discourses of decline : the end of the war in Afghanistan and the limits of American powerIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Civilizational collapse, eschatological narratives and apocalyptic philosophyIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Western civilizationIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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Introduction : global apocalypse : educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survivalIn Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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11Educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival (edited book)Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.This collection concerns educational philosophy and post-apocalyptical survival. It is based on a series of editorials and articles written by Michael A Peters as the Editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory journal, together with colleagues in a couple of co-authored chapters, to explore the concept of global apocalypse from the educational philosophy lens. This fourteenth volume in the Editor's Choice series provides insights into the philosophy of education as it relates to the concepts of…Read more
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7‘Declinism’ and discourses of decline - the end of the war in Afghanistan and the limits of American powerEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1591-1598. 2023.Taliban forces of 75,000 overran the well-equipped 300,000+ strong Afghan army, trained and supported by US-NATO military, in a world-shattering week that toppled the US Afghan client regime and bo...
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8Western civilization 101Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1582-1590. 2023.The concept of civilization in the West recognizes the origins of the term in civitas and civilité as the development of civil society and, in particular, the expression of the history of sympathy,...
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4Civilizational collapse, eschatological narratives and apocalyptic philosophyEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1599-1607. 2023.COVV: I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit. (Pause.) It’s easy going. (Pause.) When I fall I’ll weep for happiness. (Pause. He goes towards door.)HAMM: Clov! (C...
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6The early origins of neoliberalism: Colloque Walter Lippman (1938) and the Mt Perelin Society (1947)Educational Philosophy and Theory 55 (14): 1574-1581. 2023.The term ‘neoliberalism’ passed into popular usage among left-wing commentators in the late 1970s as an essentially pejorative short-hand description for free market policies that were developed an...
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48Philosophy of education in a new key: Snapshot 2020 from the United States and CanadaEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (8): 1130-1146. 2022.This article shares reflections from members of the community of philosophers of education in the United States and Canada who were invited to express their insights in response to the theme ‘Snaps...
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511 Humanism, Derrida, and the new humanitiesIn Gert Biesta & Denise Egéa-Kuehne (eds.), Derrida & education, Routledge. pp. 10--209. 2001.
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9Historizing Subjectivity in Childhood StudiesLinguistic and Philosophical Investigations 11 42-61. 2012.Historizing Subjectivity in Childhood Studies
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Introduction: Fragments of thinking, thinking in systemsIn Academic Writing, Philosophy, and Genre, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
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6Introduction: education, philosophy and politics -- Writing the self: Wittgenstein, confession and pedagogy -- Nietzsche, nihilism and the critique of modernity: post-Nietzschean philosophy of education -- Heidegger, education and modernity -- Truth-telling as an educational practice of the self: Foucault and the ethics of subjectivity -- Neoliberal governmentality: Foucault on the birth of biopolitics -- Lyotard, nihilism and education -- Gilles Deleuze's 'societies of control': from disciplina…Read more
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41Philosophy of education in a new key: A collective project of the PESA executiveEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (8): 1061-1082. 2022.Michael Peters, Sonja Arndt & Marek TesarThis is a collective writing experiment of PESA members, including its Executive Committee, asking questions of the Philosophy of Education in a New Key. Co...
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8Kinds of Thinking, Styles of ReasoningIn Mark Mason (ed.), Critical Thinking and Learning, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Why the Present Emphasis on Thinking? Kinds of Thinking: Heidegger on What is Called Thinking? Wittgenstein on Thinking Styles of Reasoning Notes References.
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5Global Britain’: The China challenge and Post-Brexit Britain as a ‘science superpowerEducational Philosophy and Theory 55 (8): 871-876. 2023.The British PM Boris Johnson is impressed with the way British science ‘liberated’ the public from Covid-19. He is reported as indicating that never before has the British people owed so much to sc...
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143AI and the future of humanity: ChatGPT-4, philosophy and education – Critical responsesEducational Philosophy and Theory. forthcoming.Michael A PetersBeijing Normal UniversityChatGPT is an AI chatbot released by OpenAI on November 30, 2022 and a ‘stable release’ on February 13, 2023. It belongs to OpenAI’s GPT-3 family (generativ...
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35Contemporary Chinese Marxism: Basic research orientationsEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (11): 1740-1753. 2022.Chengbing WangShanxi University, Taiyuan, ChinaMichael A. PetersBeijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaContemporary Chinese Marxism is not only an important theory in the humanities and social sc...
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28Writing the self: Wittgenstein, confession and pedagogyJournal of Philosophy of Education 34 (2). 2000.In this paper I investigate ‘the confessional’ as an aspect of Wittgenstein's style both as a mode of philosophising and as a mode of ‘writing the self’, tied explicitly to pedagogical practices. There are strong links between Wittgenstein's confessional mode of philosophising and his life—for him philosophy is a way of life —and interesting theoretical connections between confessional practices and pedagogy, usefully explored in the writings of the French philosopher, Michel Foucault. The Inves…Read more