Naming the Multiple: Poststructuralism and Education

by Michael A. Peters

Book Overview

Poststructuralism--as a name for a mode of thinking, a style of philosophizing, a kind of writing--has exercised a profound influence upon contemporary Western thought and the institution of the university. As a French and predominantly Parisian affair, poststructuralism is inseparable from the intellectual milieu of postwar France, a world dominated by Alexandre Koj ve's and Jean Hyppolite's interpretations of Hegel, Jacques Lacan's reading of Freud,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897895495
• ISBN13: 9780897895491
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"