Anxious Identity: Education, Difference And Politics (critical Studies In Education And Culture Series,)

This Work Is A Systematic Analysis Of Texts With Arguments On Political Performance Of Representation And Agency In Education. The Author Critically Examines Discourses On The Politics Of Difference Including Those Of Paulo Freire, Claude Levi-strauss, Iris M. Young, And Chantal Mouffe. Derrida's Thoughts On The Political As A Way To Understand Difference And Identity In Education Concludes The Volume. This Work Begins With An Examination Of Hegel's Work On The Relationship Between The Lord And The Bondsman, Which Is Implemented In The Political Discourse Of Paulo Freire. It Explores The Methodological Value Of Concepts Of Opposition; It Looks At The Work By Levi-strauss On Cultural Differences As Well As That Of Iris M. Young And Chantal Mouffe On The Politics Of Difference. Anxious Identity Calls For A Consideration Of Derrida's Thoughts On The Poltical As An Approach To Understanding Difference And Identity. In Addition To Work Of Western Philosophers And Theorists, Included Are The Postcolonial Writers Homi Bhabha And Gayatri Spivak. Contents......Page 6 Series Foreword......Page 8 Foreword: Locating Otherness in the Self by Michael A. Peters......Page 12 Preface: A Question of Political Coherence......Page 16 Acknowledgments......Page 22 Introduction......Page 24 1 Desire, Political Consciousness, and Formative Subjectivity......Page 40 2 Lévi-Strauss and the Methodological Value of Concepts of Binary Oppositions......Page 62 3 The Pedagogy of the Politics of Difference......Page 78 4 The Performance of Différance and Deconstruction......Page 106 5 Temporality, Modernity, and Différance......Page 134 6 Transformation, Politics, and Difference......Page 160 Notes......Page 180 References......Page 192 Index......Page 198 Annotation This work is a systematic analysis of texts with arguments on political performance of representation and agency in education. The author critically examines discourses on the politics of difference including those of Paulo Freire, Claude Levi-Strauss, Iris M. Young, and Chantal Mouffe. Derrida's thoughts on the political as a way to understand difference and identity in education concludes the volume