Futures of Critical Theory Dreams of Difference

by Peters, Michael A.; Olssen, Mark; Lankshear, Colin; Ashcroft, Bill; Biesta, Gert JJ; Braidotti, Rosi; Cheah, Pheng; Egea-Kuehn, Denise; Lankshear, Colin; Marshall, James D.; McLaren, Peter; Morss, John R.; Nash, Roy; Scott, David; Thomson, Iain; Trifonas,

• ISBN13: 9780742528598
• ISBN10: 0742528596
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-18
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Written by internationally acclaimed scholars on futures of critical theory, this book attempts to renew and reinvigorate critical theory by extending its range and its intellectual trajectories through strategies of inclusiveness that respect and build on parallel traditions.

Author Biography

Michael A. Peters is research professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Colin Lankshear is a freelance educational researcher and writer based in Mexico and a professorial fellow at the University of Ballarat. Mark Olssen is reader and director of doctoral programs in educational studies at the University of Surrey, England.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Futures of Critical Theory-Dreams of Difference	1	(22)
Michael Peters, Mark Olssen, and Colin Lankshear
1 Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Critique of Modernity	23	(16)
Michael Peters
2 A Critical Theory of the Self: Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Foucault	39	(20)
James D. Marshall
3 From the Question Concerning Technology to the Quest for a Democratic Technology: Heidegger, Marcuse, Feenberg	59	(14)
Iain Thomson
4 Foucault and Critique: Kant, Humanism, and the Human Sciences	73	(30)
Mark Olssen
5 Levinas's Ethicopolitical Order of Human Proximity: "The Quest for Justice"	103	(24)
Denise Egéa-Kuehne
6 "Looking for Allies": Gilles Deleuze as Critical Theorist	127	(14)
John R. Morss
7 Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction = Justice	141	(14)
Gert J.J. Biesta
8 The Postmodern Condition: Lyotard's Futurology	155	(14)
Peter Pericles Trifonas
9 Of Being-Two	169	(18)
Pheng Cheah
10 Pierre Bourdieu: The Craft of Sociology	187	(10)
Roy Nash
11 Slavoj Zizek's Naked Politics: Opting for the Impossible A Secondary Elaboration	197	(32)
Peter McLaren
12 Anthony Giddens-The Last Global Theorist	229	(10)
David Scott
13 Cyberfeminism with a Difference	239	(22)
Rosi Braidotti
14 Edward Said: The Locatediicss of Theory	261	(14)
Bill Ashcroft
15 "Antiglobalization" and Guattari's The Three Ecologies	275	(14)
Michael Peters
Index	289	(4)
About the Contributors	293