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Wittgenstein, Anti-foundationalism, Technoscience and Philosophy of Education: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader Volume VIII book cover

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Wittgenstein, Anti-foundationalism, Technoscience and Philosophy of Education An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader Volume VIII

By Michael A. Peters Copyright 2020
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge
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This book is a collection of essays motivated by a "cultural" and biographical reading of Wittgenstein. It includes some new essays and some that were originally published in Educational Philosophy and Theory . The book focuses on the concept of “technoscience”, and the relevance of Wittgenstein’s work for philosophy of technology which amplifies Lyotard’s reading and provides a critique of... Read more

Introduction: Truth, Value and the Philosopher as Cultural Physician

1. Wittgenstein, Lyotard and the Philosophy of Technoscience

2. The ethics of reading Wittgenstein

3. Wittgenstein as Exile: A philosophical topography

4. Wittgenstein and the ethics of suicide: Homosexuality and Jewish self-hatred in fin de siècle Vienna

5. Wittgenstein and post-analytic philosophy of education: Rorty or Lyotard?

6. Wittgenstein at Cambridge: Philosophy as a way of life (Michael A. Peters and Jeff Stickney)

7. ‘A picture holds us captive’: Wittgenstein and the German tradition of Weltanschuung 

8. Philosophy as Pedagogy: Wittgenstein’s Styles of Thinking

9. Kinds of Thinking, Styles of Reasoning.

Postscript: Wittgenstein's anti-philosophy 

Index

Biography

Michael A. Peters is Distinguished Professor at Beijing Normal University, PR China, China and Emeritus Professor in Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is currently also Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland where he held a Personal Chair (2000–2005). He is the executive editor of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory and the author or editor of several books on Wittgenstein.

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