1st Edition
Educational Ills and the (Im)possibility of Utopia
Introduction: Educational ills and the (im)possibility of utopia
Chapter 1. Exhausted philosophy and islands-to-come
Chapter 2. Utopian spaces and the promise of education: a conceptual analysis
Chapter 3. Against the humiliation of thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential
Chapter 4. Utopia and pessimism: ‘You should not forsake the ship in a storm because you cannot command the
winds’
Chapter 5. School in the (im)possibility of future: Utopia and its territorialities
Chapter 6. Minimal utopianism in the classroom
Chapter 7. The curious promise of educationalising technological unemployment: What can places of learning really do about the future of work?
Chapter 8. Nowhere II Erewhon
Chapter 9. The power of social dreaming: Reappraising the lesson of East European dissidents
Chapter 10. Utopianism, transindividuation, and foreign language education in the Japanese universityBiography
Joff P. N. Bradley teaches at Teikyo University, Tokyo, and is Visiting Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Kyung Hee University, Seoul.
Gerald Argenton, Associate Professor at Tamagawa University, Tokyo, is a philosopher of education studying the formative dimensions of the unknown.
