The reproduction of philosophical bodies in education with language

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    Abstract

    This paper articulates a feminist poststructural philosophy of education by combining the work of Luce Irigaray and Michel Foucault. This acts as an underpinning for a philosophy of desire in education, or as a minor philosophy of education where multiple movements of bodies are enacted through theoretical methodologies and research. These methods include qualitative analysis and critical discourse analysis; where the conjunction Irigaray-Foucault is a paradigm for dealing with educational phenomena. It is also a rigorous materialism that opens up the way in which we think about philosophical bodies in education with language. This simultaneously creates gaps in our thinking about the problems associated with philosophical bodies in education, where the imagination may intercede and Eros can do his work, 'For if Eros possessed all that he desires, he would desire no more'.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)816-829
    Number of pages14
    JournalEducational Philosophy and Theory
    Volume42
    Issue number8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010

    Keywords

    • Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
    • Irigaray, Luce
    • education
    • human body (philosophy)

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