A Critique of Pure Education: Radically Rethinking the Education Archipelago

This book analyses educational theory in order to offer an alternative view of the history of education in modernity. It provides a new understanding of education as a phenomenon that draws on powerful lines of thinking, but also makes a significant departure from the conventional wisdom of both education policy and education studies. These perspectives offer an original and challenging account of what education is and of what politics has become, providing resources to rethink education as a fundamental dimension of the unprecedented political order of our time. It does this through a focus on what it takes to be the key, complex and expanding political apparatus of education. Taking the school to be the paradigm institution of modernity and beyond, the book proposes that we see the school as central to contemporary political ontology. Contents The Educational World Order Philosophy Now Ontotheology Education as Governmental Apparatus A Scandalous Insight Beyond Deconstruction References How Does It Stand with Education? Ubiquitous Education The School as Paradigm Institution The Myth of Education Education as a Way of Life The Philosophy of Education Enlightenment Troubles The Carcereal The Image of Childhood References Carcereality The Societies of Control Thesis Permanent Registration The Enclosure of Knowledge Education, Freedom and Equality Malabou: Life as Prison Technological Enframing as Carcereal Enclosure Disavowal References The Century of the Camp Natality or Penality Agamben’s Political Ontology Inescapable Education Sovereignty Questions Spaces of Exception Inclusion and Exclusion Rationality and Legitimacy Ubiquitous Government Citizens and ‘Homo Sacer’: Modes of Life Education and the State of Exception References We Refugees Displacement The ‘Essence’ of the Human? Refugee Ontology Refugees, Camps and Encampment Deadwood Schooling the World References The Global Education Archipelago The Global Apparatus The Global University The Educationscape A Post-colonial Perspective Global Technological Enframing Cradle to Grave The Governmental Project ‘China to Peru’ Thinking Otherwise Critique of Critique: Outside and Other Than the Schooled Society References Questions Concerning Knowledge and Being Cabinets of Curiosity? Education as Acquisition and Enclosure Fundamental Ontology and Education The Metaphysical Lacunae of ‘Character’ Education The Character of Curiosity Heidegger’s Ontological Ethic as Critique of Curiosity Wondering References The End of Education Apocalypse Now or Always? The End of Education A Disturbance in Philosophy Tragedy and Philosophy: What Is Tragedy? Philosophy and Education References An Afternote on Method Orientation Ontology Phenomenology Phenomenology Hermeneutics Ethics Aporia References References Index