Michel Foucault : materialism and education / Mark Olssen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olssen, Mark.

Series:

Cultural politics & the promise of democracy

Cultural politics and the promise of democracy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Historical materialism.

Physical Description:

xi, 259 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Updated edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, [2006]

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.

Contents:

The modified realism of Michel Foucault

Foucault's methods

Power and the self

Considering Foucault as historical materialist

Foucault's different faces

Foucault and Marxism

Relativism

Foucault and Gramsci : is there a basis for convergence?

Foucault and the tasks of education

Foucault and critical theory

Educating the self

Foucault's influence in educational research

Freedom, materialism, politics, ethics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-249) and index.

ISBN:

1594511691

OCLC:

63122808

Publisher Number:

9781594511691