Education and the spirit of time : : historical, global and critical reflections / / edited by Olli-Pekka Moisio and Juha Suoranta.

• Superior document: Bold Visions in Educational Research ; 6
• TeilnehmendeR: Moisio, Olli-Pekka,; Suoranta, Juha,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Bold Visions in Educational Research ; 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

The aim of this book is to raise current social, political, and moral issues in social theory by taking a critical stance towards historical, global, and educational themes in the context of culture, politics, and technology. All the contributors have written their texts in the spirit of critical Zeitgeist analysis, which, they believe, is a highly needed genre in social theory. Thus the focus of the book is critical Zeitgeist analysis, and its potential in addressing various social maladies of the present era. Methodologically, critical Zeitgeist analysis is argued to be of value in demonstrating how to both utilize and expand the possibilities of writing normative social theory. The key idea of critical Zeitgeist analysis is to reflect critically on the state of the present world. In this task it entwines analytical, political and moral languages, as well as the languages of critique and hope. In critical Zeitgeist analysis it is not only possible but also necessary to ask who we are, and what states of affairs prevail in our tragic times. The themes of the book are global and it can be used as a course book in several fields of social science like cultural studies, education and political science, as well as in sociology.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Olli-Pekka Moisio and Juha Suoranta -- Introduction: From Re-action to Action in Contemporary Social Sciences? / Olli-Pekka Moisio and Juha Suoranta -- The Fate of Humanity in the Post-TrinitarianWorld / Zygmunt Bauman -- Biotechnology, Democracy, and the Politics of Cloning / Steven Best and Douglas Kellner -- The Globalization Effect / Sakari Hänninen -- Ukraine’s Orange Revolution and the Quest for Omnilateral Liberation / Chris Ford -- The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity / Martin Jay -- A Global Culture of Terror: A Marxist Riposte / Peter McLaren -- How to Remember the Holocaust? / Tuija Parvikko -- Are Suicide Bombings Morally Justifiable? / Richard Wolin -- Driving as a Manifestation of the Essence of the Current Historical Moment / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Six Theses on Class, Global Capital and Resistance by Education and Other Cultural Workers / Dave Hill -- The World as a Playground of Self-Builders / Petteri Niemi -- Critical Pedagogy and Ideology Critique as Zeitgeist Analysis / Olli-Pekka Moisio and Juha Suoranta.