Comments on: Michel Foucault ‘What is Enlightenment?’ In Paul Rabinow (1984) The Foucault reader. New York: Pantheon. I’ve always liked the paper What is enlightenment? as it illustrates how complex Foucault’s thinking on modernity was at the time. Here he connects the enlightenment to modernity and situates his own archaeology of knowledge and genealogy of power (taking this distinction at… Read more →
I’ve always had a soft spot for the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty; these reflections are based on a reading of his: ‘Hegel’s existentialism’ In Maurice Merleau-Ponty Sense and non-sense (1964) Evanston: Northwestern University Press (pp. 63-70). It includes a useful account of Hegel’s master-slave dialectic. Apologies for the use of masculine terminology in the quotations … In this essay, Merleau-Ponty… Read more →
[image (c) Gerard van Schagen] In his paper “The idea of a world university: Can Foucauldian research offer a vision of educational futures?” (published originally in Pedagogy, Culture and Society), Ansgar Allen provides a critique of both Foucault and also other authors who have pursued the notion of a world university via a Foucauldian framework – namely Maarten Simons and Jan… Read more →
The sociologist and philosopher Jürgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict. However, there has been no concerted and focused attempt to introduce his ideas to the field of education broadly. This book rectifies this omission and delivers a definitive contribution to the understanding of Habermas’s oeuvre as it applies… Read more →
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