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Informationen zum Autor HO-CHIA CHUEH teaches at the Department of Agricultural Extension, National Taiwan University. She has also been a researcher, International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Locating Otherness in the Self by Michael A. Peters Preface: A Question of Political Coherence Introduction Desire, Political Consciousness and Formative Subjectivity Lévi-Strauss and the Methodological Value of Concepts of Binary Oppositions The Pedogogy of the 'Politcs of Difference' The Performance of Différance and Deconstruction Temporality, Modernity and Différance Transformation, Politics and Difference References
