Communist Study

Education for the Commons

Derek R. Ford (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

170 Seiten

2016
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3244-0 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Contending that radical politics needs educational theory, Communist Study: Education for the Commons poses a series of educational questions pertinent to revolutionary movements: How can pedagogy bridge the gap between what is and what can be, while respecting the gap and its uncertainty and figurality? How can pedagogy accommodate ambiguity while remaining faithful to the communist project? In answering these questions, educational theorist Derek R. Ford develops a pedagogical constellation that radically opens up what education is and what it can mean for revolutionary struggle. To chart this constellation, Ford takes the reader on a journey that traverses disciplinary and ideological boundaries, innovatively reading theorists as diverse as Agamben, Marx, Lyotard, Butler, and Lenin. Demonstrating that learning is the educational logic that underpins capitalism and democracy, Ford articulates a theory of communist study as an alternative and oppositional logic. Poetic, performative, and provocative, this theory of study is oriented toward what Ford calls “the sublime feeling of being-in-common,” which, as he insists, is always a commonness against.

Derek R. Ford is assistant professor of education studies at DePauw University.

Contents

Foreword. Toward a Communist Philosophy of Education: Reflections on Method and Methodology (Tyson E. Lewis)

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A partisan theory of study

Part one: Subject

Chapter 1: Subject formation
Chapter 2: Immaterial subjects (and the fetish thereof)

Part two: Study

Chapter 3: Studying whatever
Chapter 4: The secret struggle
Chapter 5: The terror of democracy
Chapter 6: Figure

Part three: Struggle

Chapter 7: In praise of tanks
Chapter 8: Party
Conclusion: Architectures of resistance

Afterword: It’s a Wednesday: To be a problem-with, to be a problem-for (Ailish Hopper)

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Erscheinungsdatum	22.09.2016
Reihe/Serie	Youth Culture and Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century
Zusatzinfo	1 BW Illustration, 2 BW Photos
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 237 mm
Gewicht	404 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-4985-3244-6 / 1498532446
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-3244-0 / 9781498532440
Zustand	Neuware