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Michel Foucault Materialism and Education
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Mark Olssen
Book Code: H587
ISBN: 0-89789-587-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-587-3
216 pages
Bergin & Garvey
Publication: 7/30/1999
List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Highly recommended for all collections....
    —Choice
  • Olssen's book is an extremely provacative and highly readable look at the works of Foucault from an angle not usually encountered in the secondary literature.
    —International Studies in Philosophy     2003
Description: Although Foucault departs from Marxism, his own approach constitutes a form of consistent materialism which has theoretical implications for the analysis of social and educational discursive systems. In seeking to demonstrate a correct reading of Foucault, linguistic readings of his work, such as those of Christopher Norris (1993), which represent him as part of the linguistic turn in French philosophy, where "language (or representation) henceforth defines the limits of thought," will be dispelled in the process of being corrected. Rather, Foucault will be represented, as Habermas (1987) has suggested, "not merely as a historicist" but at the same time as a "nominalist, materialist, and empiricist." Because the distinctiveness of Foucault's approach can best be seen in contrast to other major philosophical systems and thinkers, considerable attention is given to examining Foucault's relationship to Marxism, as well as his relations to Kant, Gramsci, Habermas, and the Greeks. In relation to education, there is in Foucault's approach a double emphasis which constitutes an ordering principle for this work. On the one hand, attention is directed to discursive practices which perform an educative role in the constitution of subjects and of human forms of existence. On the other hand, forms of education are constituted and utilized for the purposes of collective ethical self-creation, a theme Foucault emphasized in his later works. The book assesses some of the more interesting recent utilizations of Foucault in educational research.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Modified Realism of Michel Foucault
  • Methodology
  • Power and the Self
  • Considering Foucault as Historical Materialist
  • Foucault's Different Faces
  • Foucault and Marxism
  • Relativism
  • Foucault and Gramsci: Is There a Basis for Convergence?
  • Foucault and the Tasks of Education
  • Foucault and Critical Theory
  • Educating the Self
  • Foucault and Educational Research
  • Conclusion: Autonomy, History, Materialism
LC Card Number: 98-49933
LCC Class: LB880
Dewey Class: 370
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