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Author Spanos, William V

Title End of Education : Toward Posthumanism
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (304 pages)
Series Pedagogy and Cultural Practice
Pedagogy and cultural practice.
Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Humanistic Understanding and the Onto-theo-logical Tradition: The Ideology of Vision; 2 Humanistic Inquiry and the Politics of the Gaze; 3 The Apollonian Investment of Modern Humanist Educational Theory: The Examples of Matthew Arnold, Irving Babbitt, and I.A. Richards; 4 The Violence of Disinterestedness: A Genealogy of the Educational "Reform" Initiative in the 1980s; 5 The University in the Vietnam Decade: The "Crisis of Command" and the "Refusal of Spontaneous Consent."
6 The Intellectual and the Posthumanist Occasion: Toward a Decentered PaideiaNotes; Index
Summary In this groundbreaking work, William V. Spanos offers a powerful contribution to the impassioned debates about the crisis of the humanities. Drawing from various discourses of contemporary theory (primarily from Heidegger and Foucault), The End of Education constitutes a deconstruction of the discourse and practice of the modern humanist university. Spanos uses and transforms Heidegger's critique of the centered circle of Being in metaphysical, scientific, and humanist discourses and Foucault's critique of the panoptic gaze of disciplinary society to disclose the interplay between ontology and
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Subject Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy
Humanism.
Education, Humanistic -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Education, Higher -- Curricula -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Educational change -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Educational anthropology -- United States
Humanism
humanism.
Education, Higher -- Curricula
Education, Higher -- Philosophy
Education, Humanistic
Educational anthropology
Educational change
Humanism
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816683857
0816683859