Education Out of Bounds Reimagining Cultural Studies for a Posthuman Age

by Lewis, Tyson E.; Kahn, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780230622548
• ISBN10: 0230622542
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Tyson E. Lewis and Richard Kahn argue for a new critical theory of the monster as an imaginary other on the margins of human and animal. Through a unique combination of critical, posthumanist, and educational theories, the authors engage in a surreal journey into the worlds of feral children, alien reptoids, and feary faiths in order to understand how social movements are renegotiating the boundaries of community. Part philosophy of imagination, part political theory, and part pedagogical critique, this book is a twenty-first century bestiary ' a catalog to navigate the monstrous world in which we live.

Author Biography

Tyson E. Lewis is Assistant Professor of Educational Philosophy at Montclair State University. He is co-editor of Marcuse’s Challenge to Education.

Richard Kahn is a freelance writer and activist living in Los Angeles. Most recently, he is the author of Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, and Planetary Crisis: The Ecopedagogy Movement and Ecopedagogy: Educating for Sustainability in Schools and Society.

Table of Contents

Introduction: These Monstrous Times: From Bestiary to Posthumanist Pedagogy * Victor, The Wild Child: Humanist Pedagogy and the Anthropological Machine * The Reptoid Hypothesis: Exopedagogy and the UFOther * Faery Faiths: Altermodernity and the Divine Violence of Exopedagogy * Conclusion: A Monstrous Love Affair: The Ethics of Exopedagogy