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

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 Ze...

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Superior document:Bold Visions in Educational Research ; 6
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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
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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.