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136Environmental Education, Neo‐liberalism and Globalisation: the ‘New Zealand experiment’Educational Philosophy and Theory 33 (2). 2001.Remove the world around the struggles, keep only conflicts and debates, dense with men, purified of things, you will have the theatrical stage, most narratives and philosophies, all of the social sciences: the interesting spectacle we refer to as ‘cultural’.Whoever says where the master and the slave are struggling? Our culture cannot stand the world.
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280Education and the postmodern condition: Revisiting Jean-françois Lyotard (edited book)Journal of Philosophy of Education 29 (3). 1995.This paper re-examines Lyotard's notion of the postmodern condition in terms of its relevance and significance for education. The first section of the paper examines the Wittgensteinian role that Lyotard ascribes to philosophy in the postmodern condition. The second section, following Lyotard's discursive turn, locates the problem of the legitimation of education and knowledge in relation to capitalism. The final section provides a review of both Lyotard's responses to his critics and his reappr…Read more
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Emancipation and Philosophies of HistoryIn Pradeep Ajit Dhillon & Paul Standish (eds.), Lyotard: just education, Routledge. 2000.
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139Beyond the philosophy of the subject: Liberalism, education and the critique of individualismEducational Philosophy and Theory 25 (1). 1993.
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94Collective obituary for James D. Marshall (1937–2021)Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (4): 331-349. 2021.Michael A. PetersBeijing Normal UniversityMy deepest condolences to Pepe, Dom and Marcus and to Jim’s grandchildren. Tina and I spent a lot of time at the Marshall family home, often attending dinn...
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