TY - BOOK AU - Olssen,Mark TI - Michel Foucault: materialism and education T2 - Cultural politics and the promise of democracy SN - 1594511691 AV - LB880.F682 O47 2006 U1 - 370.1092 22 PY - 2006///] CY - Boulder, CO PB - Paradigm Publishers KW - Foucault, Michel, KW - Education KW - Philosophy KW - Historical materialism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The modified realism of Michel Foucault -- Foucault's methods -- 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's influence in educational research -- Freedom, materialism, politics, ethics N2 - "Michel Foucault is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, and his works are some of the most difficult to grasp. In Michel Foucault: Materialism and Education, Mark Olssen offers one of the most accessible overviews of Foucault's thought available to educators and general readers, putting into context the relevance of Foucault's thought for contemporary educational philosophy and theory. Olssen adds new insights to Foucault scholarship by bringing to light the influences of Marx, Nietzsche, Gramsci, Habermas, and other on Foucault's development as a thinker, and on the deep historical materialist stand that gardens and uniquely characterizes so much of Foucault's thought."--Jacket ER -