A normative Foucauldian : : selected papers of Mark Olssen /

A normative Foucauldian : : selected papers of Mark Olssen / / Mark Olssen.

Inspired by the writings of Michel Foucault, Olssen's writings traverse philosophy, politics, education, and epistemology. This book comprises a selection of his papers published in academic journals and books over twenty-five years. Taken as a whole, the papers represent a redirection of the c...

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Superior document:Educational Futures
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Olssen, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Educational Futures
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Critique, Ethics, Learning
  • Stephen J. Ball
  • Series Editor's Foreword: Mark Olssen: Foucauldian Social Democrat
  • Michael A. Peters
  • Preface
  • PART 1: Michel Foucault
  • 1 Foucault and the Imperatives of Education
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Foucault and Kant
  • 3 Rejecting Kantian Foundationalism
  • 4 Critique as a Historicophilosphical Practice
  • 5 Critique as How Not to Be Governed
  • 6 Criticism as Practical Politics
  • 7 Foucault and Critique in Education: Some Illustrations
  • 8 Critique in a Non-Foundational World: A Question of Method
  • 2 Discourse, Complexity, Normativity: Tracing the Elaboration of Foucault's Materialist Concept of Discourse
  • 1 A Brief Introduction to Foucault's Methods
  • 2 From the Early to the Late Foucault
  • 3 An Incorporeal Materialism
  • 4 Resisting Hegelian Assumptions of Unity
  • 5 Foucault's Poststructuralism
  • 6 Foucault Contra Habermas: Overcoming Relativism by Adding the Concept of Life
  • PART 2: Foucault, Marx, Hegel
  • 3 Foucault and Marxism: Rewriting the Theory of Historical Materialism
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Marxist Preliminaries: A Brief Summation
  • 3 Reconceptualising Determination
  • 4 Change and Determination
  • 5 Monism and Pluralism
  • 6 Complexity, Chance, Pluralism: Appropriating Nietzsche to Correct Marx
  • 7 Complexity and Openness
  • 8 The Nature of Identity
  • 9 Diffference and Community
  • 10 Conclusion
  • 4 Marx, Education and the Possibilities of a Fairer World: Reviving Radical Political Economy through Foucault
  • Mark Olssen and Michael A. Peters
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Marx's Radical Political Economy
  • 3 Foucault's Radical Political Economy
  • 4 Governmentality Studies
  • 5 Neoliberalism and the Birth of Biopolitics
  • 6 Towards a Possible Foucauldian Politics
  • 7 From Governmentality to the Hermeneutics of the Self as Education
  • 5 In Conversation with Mark Olssen: On Foucault with Marx and Hegel
  • Rille Raaper and Mark Olssen
  • PART 3: Social Democracy in the 21st Century
  • 6 From the Crick Report to the Parekh Report: Multiculturalism, Cultural Difference and Democracy: The Re-visioning of Citizenship Education
  • 1 Introduction: The Crick Report
  • 2 Iris Marion Young and the Politics of Cultural Diffference
  • 3 The Crick Report and the Politics of Cultural Diffference
  • 4 The Parekh Report on the Future of Multi-ethnic Britain: Multi-Ethnic Citizenship
  • 5 Adding the Parekh Report to the Crick Report
  • 7 In Defence of the Welfare State and Publicly Provided Education: A New Zealand Perspective
  • 1 Neoliberalism and New Zealand Education
  • 2 The Failure of Market Theories
  • 3 Alternatives
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 8 Education Policy, the Cold War and the "Liberal-Communitarian" Debate
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Classical Liberalism
  • 3 Classical Economic Liberalism
  • 4 Utilitarianism
  • 5 The Moment of Equality in Liberal Theory: John Rawls
  • 6 The Unsatisfactory Basis of Rawls's Theory
  • 7 The Communitarian Response to Liberal Frameworks
  • 8 Communitarianism and the Philosophers of the Cold War
  • 9 Communitarianism and School Choice
  • 10 Conclusion
  • 9 Social Democracy, Complexity and Education: Perspectives from the Writings of John Atkinson Hobson and John Maynard Keynes
  • 1 The Philosophy of John Atkinson Hobson
  • 2 Complexity Theories
  • 3 Hobson and Keynes
  • 4 Complexity and Education
  • PART 4: Neoliberal Governmentality
  • 10 Neoliberalism and Laissez-Faire: The Retreat from Naturalism
  • 1 The Problem of Laissez-Faire in Neoliberal Thought
  • 2 Foucault, Röpke and Neoliberalism
  • 3 Hayek and Neoliberalism
  • 4 Planning and the Rule of Law
  • 5 A Critique of Hayek's Concept of Planning
  • 6 Knowledge and Planning
  • 7 Lars Cornelissen on Hayek and Democracy
  • 8 Education
  • 11 Neoliberal Competition in Higher Education Today: Research, Accountability and Impact
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Research and Accountability
  • 3 From Bad to Worse: The REF and the Impact of Research
  • 4 Neoliberalism and Democracy
  • 12 Foucault and Neoliberalism: A Response to Recent Critics and a New Resolution
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Criticisms of Foucault
  • 3 Rescuing Foucault
  • 4 Neoliberal "Biopower" as a Form of "Positive" State Power
  • 5 A Possible Resolution: Adam Ferguson and the Concept of Civil Society as a Category in Governmentality
  • 6 Conclusion
  • PART 5: Complexity, Democracy, Ethics
  • 13 Foucault as Complexity Theorist: Overcoming the Problems of Classical Philosophical Analysis
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Complexity and Openness
  • 3 The Nature of Identity
  • 4 Holism-Particularism, Uniqueness and Creativity
  • 14 Exploring Complexity through Literature: Reframing Foucault's Research Project with Hindsight
  • 15 Complexity and Learning: Implications for Teacher Education
  • 1 An Introduction to the Science of Complexity
  • 2 The Normative Consequences of Complexity for Learning and Teacher Education
  • 3 A Possible Ethical Theory for a Complex Global Society
  • PART 6: Political Theory in the 21st Century
  • 16 Globalisation, the Third Way and Education Post-9/11: Building Democratic Citizenship
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Neoliberalism, Globalisation and the Move to the "Third Way"
  • 3 What Is Globalisation?
  • 4 A New Political Settlement?
  • 5 Totalitarianism
  • 6 Rights Talk
  • 7 A New Multicultural Cosmopolitanism
  • 8 Democracy
  • 9 Deepening Democracy through Education
  • 17 Totalitarianism and the "Repressed" Utopia of the Present: Moving beyond Hayek and Popper with Foucault
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Hayek and Popper: Utopianism, Planning and Holistic Engineering
  • 3 Karl Popper: "Utopian" and "Piecemeal" Engineering
  • 4 Utopianism and the Totalitarian State
  • 5 The Poverty of the Liberal Critique of Totalitarianism
  • 6 Foucault and Totality
  • 7 Reconceptualising Utopianism Post-9/11
  • 8 Conclusion
  • 18 Wittgenstein and Foucault: The Limits and Possibilities of Constructivism
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Social and Individual Constructions
  • 3 Idealism
  • 4 Objectivity, Truth and Relativism
  • 5 The Centrality of Language and Discourse
  • 6 Foucault as Constructivist
  • 7 Conclusion
  • 19 Invoking Democracy: Foucault's Conception (with insights from Hobbes)
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Liberty, Ethics and Domination
  • 3 Rights as a Historico-Political Discourse
  • 4 Contestation and Deliberation
  • 5 Extending Foucault and Democracy Post-9/11
  • Publications by Mark Olssen, 1982-2021.

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