Michel Foucault: Materialism and Education

by Olssen,Mark

• ISBN13: 9781594511691
• ISBN10: 1594511691
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-05-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Michel Foucault is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his works are some of the most difficult to grasp. In Michel Foucault: Materialism and Education , Mark Olssen offers one of the most accessible overviews of Foucault's thought available to educators and general readers, putting into context the relevance of Foucault's thought (which is significant) to contemporary educational philosophy and theory. Olssen adds important new insights to Foucault scholarship by bringing to light the influences of other thinkers such as Marx, Nietzsche, Gramsci, Habermas, and others on Foucault's development as a thinker and their influence on the deep historical materialist strand that grounds and uniquely characterizes so much of Foucault's thought.

Author Biography

Mark Olssen is Professor of Political Theory and Education Policy in the Department of Political, International, and Policy Studies at the University of Surrey.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Enlarged Paperback Edition	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Modified Realism of Michel Foucault	p. 7
Foucault's Methods	p. 9
Power and the Self	p. 19
Considering Foucault as Historical Materialist	p. 39
Foucault's Different Faces	p. 41
Foucault and Marxism	p. 51
Relativism	p. 75
Foucault and Gramsci: Is There a Basis for Convergence?	p. 95
Foucault and the Tasks of Education	p. 119
Foucault and Critical Theory	p. 121
Educating the Self	p. 153
Foucault's Influence on Educational Research	p. 175
Freedom, Materialism, Politics, Ethics	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 223
Index	p. 251
About the Author	p. 259
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