Liber amicorum: A Philosophical Conversation among Friends - A Festschrift for Michael A. Peters
Liber amicorum: A Philosophical Conversation among Friends - A Festschrift for Michael A. Peters
Contributor(s): Donna Laudan (Editor)
Subject(s): Philosophy, Economy, Education, Bibliography, Political Theory, Government/Political systems, Political economy, Higher Education , Scientific Life, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: Michael A. Peters; scientific life; education; philosophy; economy; political economy; knowledge; education systems; education policy; democracy; market; liberalism; Wittgenstein; Foucault; knowledge; marxism; universalism; cosmopolitanism;
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-1-935494-99-7
- Page Count: 249
- Publication Year: 2014
- Language: English
Philosophical Fellowship: An Interview with Michael Peters and Nicholas Burbules
Philosophical Fellowship: An Interview with Michael Peters and Nicholas Burbules
(Philosophical Fellowship: An Interview with Michael Peters and Nicholas Burbules)
- Author(s):Jeff Stickney
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Analytic Philosophy, Scientific Life
- Page Range:1-23
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:philosophy; fellowship; interview; Michael Peters; Nicholas Burbules; Wittgenstein;
- Summary/Abstract:Jeff Stickney: Tell us when and how your productive collaboration began. Who else played a part in ushering in a new, post-foundational reading of Wittgenstein within philosophy of education? Michael Peters: First let me express my gratitude to you both but particularly Jeff for organizing this interview. As far as I remember our collaborations began with contributing to Jim Marshall and Paul Smeyers’ Wittgenstein’s Challenge published in 1995. We were contributors to the same collection.
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Endless Energy: Portrait of an Intellectual
Endless Energy: Portrait of an Intellectual
(Endless Energy: Portrait of an Intellectual)
- Author(s):Peter Roberts
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Social Sciences, Education, Higher Education , Scientific Life
- Page Range:24-31
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:Michael Peters; higher education; intellectual; scientific life;
- Summary/Abstract:I have known Michael Peters for more than 30 years. My first encounter with him was in the 1970s at an Auckland secondary school where I was a student and Michael was a teacher. I was not in Michael’s classes but did see him in action once or twice when he appeared in a Social Studies course taught by someone else. Those memories are hazy now but I have a clear recollection of our subsequent crossing of paths at the University of Auckland in the early 1980s. In my second year at university I enrolled in two Stage One Education courses, one of which was titled ‘An Introduction to Western Educational Thought’. Colin Lankshear and Jim Marshall were the course lecturers and Michael was my tutor. Michael was completing his PhD at the time (with Jim as his senior supervisor), and he was an enthusiastic, thought provoking tutor. He probed us to think more carefully and deeply in responding to educational questions and he played an important role, with Colin and Jim, in fostering my interest in philosophy of education. He was also willing to meet outside class times to discuss essays and other aspects of the course, for which I was most grateful. I went on to major in Education for my BA degree and Michael was involved in a number of the other courses I completed. A Masters degree in Education followed, and in 1987 I was interviewed for a Junior Lectureship at the University of Waikato, an institution located about two hours south of Auckland. I was offered the job and thereafter my contact with Michael lessened for a number of years, though we did see each other at conferences and other events from time to time.
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Dancing Wittgenstein (after Foucault)
Dancing Wittgenstein (after Foucault)
(Dancing Wittgenstein (after Foucault))
- Author(s):Jeff Stickney
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy
- Page Range:32-48
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:philosophy; Wittgenstein; Foucault; Michael A. Peters; political philosophy;
- Summary/Abstract:The publication of Wittgenstein: Philosophy, Postmodernism, Pedagogy (1999) by Michael A. Peters and James D. Marshall was a landmark. I had just started my doctorate (after ten years of teaching secondary school), intent on applying Wittgenstein’s later philosophy to problems in education: as they appeared on the rough ground instead of the crystalline purity of plans drawn up by the Ministry and District School Boards (PI §107). True to form, this book charts the intellectual and cultural legacies on which Wittgenstein drew: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, and (with Nicholas Burbules in Chapter 9), currents in 20th c. Viennese society that provided background to his style and aesthetic sensibilities. It also mapped the way forward by drawing connections between Wittgenstein’s manner of “writing the self” with Foucault’s neo-Nietzschean concept of arts and techniques of self-stylization. The effect was to transform my project, exploring joint applications of the philosophies of Wittgenstein and Foucault to teacher inspection and professional development: a trajectory that led me to work with James Tully at University of Toronto, who had long been employing these thinkers in political philosophy (Tully, 1989). Ten years later I appreciated what this turn meant for my own development as a writer and activist in education. At a post-lecture dinner Michael confided that in taking up Lyotard and Foucault, the more political philosophers, he “saved himself from becoming a pithy Wittgensteinian” (Toronto 2010). Anyone fatigued by “over rehearsed” expositions of the compelling rule-following argument will know what this means: even those seeing its wider applications in education. Moving into The Government of the Self and Others, Michael and his collaborators essayed/assayed practice-based approaches to philosophical and policy questions in education: whether initiate training into normative rules (Wittgenstein); or, normalizing, disciplinary and dividing practices (Foucault). His work on Nietzsche, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Lyotard, Rorty, Derrida and Foucault makes Michael (along with other contributors to this volume) not only our resident genealogist but, ironically, one of the founders of post-foundational philosophy of education.
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Not a Docile Body – A View from the Inside: Michael A. Peters on Foucault
Not a Docile Body – A View from the Inside: Michael A. Peters on Foucault
(Not a Docile Body – A View from the Inside: Michael A. Peters on Foucault)
- Author(s):Tina Besley
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Social Sciences, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Higher Education , Scientific Life
- Page Range:49-64
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:scientific life; Michael A. Peters; Foucault;
- Summary/Abstract:I wear two hats as I write this this festschrift on the work of Michael A. Peters: one personal as his partner and wife since 1991, the other as a professional and intellectual partner whom I work and write with from time to time, hence in blending aspects of both, this contribution to Michael’s festschrift is unabashedly an ‘insider’s view.
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Conceiving the University
Conceiving the University
(Conceiving the University)
- Author(s):Ronald Barnett
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Education, Higher Education , Scientific Life
- Page Range:65-74
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:scientific life; Michael Peters; university; higher education; postmodernism; postpostmodernism; liberal universit;
- Summary/Abstract:In his indefatigable endeavours, Michael Peters has opened a large and complex terrain. Conceptually, it offers an horizon against which large ideas have been explored, including those of globalization, postmodernism, postpostmodernism, governmentality, ‘knowledge capitalism’ (Peters’ own term), neoliberalism, education, pedagogy, social policy, economic policy, knowledge, culture and openness. Key theorists and thinkers on whom Peters has drawn have included Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Lyotard, Readings, Derrida, Rorty, and Deleuze. An oeuvre with such scope lends itself to an almost infinite interrogations, and interpretations, even when placed in the themes of this volume – those of education, politics and the cosmopolitan. In this chapter, I shall home in on just one matter, that of understanding the university: just what is it to understand the university? And I shall try to address this question in the spirit – as I glean it – of the breadth of perspectives bequeathed to us by Michael Peters.
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A ‘Happy’ Coincidence: Cognitive Capitalism and Well-Being Enhancement in Schools
A ‘Happy’ Coincidence: Cognitive Capitalism and Well-Being Enhancement in Schools
(A ‘Happy’ Coincidence: Cognitive Capitalism and Well-Being Enhancement in Schools)
- Author(s):James Reveley
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Economy, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Political economy
- Page Range:75-86
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:cognitive capitalism; schools; neoliberalism; Michael A. Peters;
- Summary/Abstract:‘Almost certainly we are witnessing a shift to...a market individualism of neoliberalism where the self is shaped as a utility maximiser, a free and contractual individual, who is self-constituted through the market choices and investment decisions that he/she makes....In the face of increasingly technical and functional forms of literacy and of schooling, we might inquire whether school in an age of consumerism promotes a relation to the self based on truth-telling or whether this relation has been replaced by another primary ethos: happiness, security, survival, success, ‘self-improvement,’ wealth.’ (Besley and Peters, 2007: 18)
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Peters on the New Ecologies of Knowledge
Peters on the New Ecologies of Knowledge
(Peters on the New Ecologies of Knowledge)
- Author(s):George Lăzăroiu
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Economy, Education, Political Theory, Political economy, Higher Education , ICT Information and Communications Technologies
- Page Range:87-93
- No. of Pages:7
- Keywords:Michael A. Peters; neoliberal university; cybernetic informational capitalism; economy;
- Summary/Abstract:Peters explains the development of a cybernetic informational capitalism, the rise of the “neoliberal university,” and the production of academic knowledge and its uses. Peters emphasizes the centrality of knowledge and information to the processes of the sign economy and the symbolic society, the advent of the Internet and user-generated cultures, and the relation between openness and creativity as part of a networked group.
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The Education State, Conversation and Democracy to Come
The Education State, Conversation and Democracy to Come
(The Education State, Conversation and Democracy to Come)
- Author(s):Brian Opie
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Education, Political Theory, Government/Political systems, State/Government and Education
- Page Range:94-110
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:education; democracy; state; neoliberalism; Michael Peters;
- Summary/Abstract:For more than two decades, Michael Peters has been engaged in a wide ranging critique of the neoliberal settlement in education, society and government. His writings, and the classes, seminars, conferences and collaborations in which they have been discussed and elaborated, have created and sustained networks of people working to build a new consensus about the purposes of education and knowledge creation in democratic societies. This paper is intended as a contribution to that new consensus and a grateful acknowledgment of Michael’s energy of thought and conversation. It will argue that both recovery of the idea of democratic governance and its more complete implementation depends upon a profound shift in the centre of gravity in nation states now claiming to be democracies, away from the economy and the cluster of interests it brings together and towards educating and learning as the primary focus of public policy.
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Who Speaks? Power, Knowledge and the Professional Field - A Discourse Analytical Perspective on Educational Policy Consultancy and Advice
Who Speaks? Power, Knowledge and the Professional Field - A Discourse Analytical Perspective on Educational Policy Consultancy and Advice
(Who Speaks? Power, Knowledge and the Professional Field - A Discourse Analytical Perspective on Educational Policy Consultancy and Advice)
- Author(s):Susanne Maria Weber
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics, Education, Higher Education , State/Government and Education
- Page Range:111-126
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:education; higher education; academia; politics; professional field; knowledge ; education policy;
- Summary/Abstract:The relationship of academia, politics and professional fields in education is currently under discussion. Numerous works in education concerned with the contemporary condition of academia and universities address the problems of new political strategies in Higher Education and conditions changing university as institution and social space of knowledge production. Between bureaucratization and managerialism, the programatics of the “entrepreneurial university” creates new imperatives on academics and the academic field as such (Liesner 2006; Lorenz 2012; Peters forthcoming; Weber forthcoming). Within an overall trend of economization of and in academia, the relationship between academic knowledge, politics and society are becoming more critical. With political and societal expectations becoming more intense, notions of academic productivity shifting towards an outcome and financial output oriented perspective (Münch 2007, 2011), the academic field is transforming (Masschelein & Simons 2010; 2012). What are implications and possible risks for academic policy advice?
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Professor Michael A. Peters – A Kantian in Spirit
Professor Michael A. Peters – A Kantian in Spirit
(Professor Michael A. Peters – A Kantian in Spirit)
- Author(s):Klas Roth
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Education, Scientific Life
- Page Range:127-133
- No. of Pages:7
- Keywords:scientific life; Michael A. Peters; education; philosophy; use of reason; Kant; Foucault;
- Summary/Abstract:Professor Michael A. Peters’ impressive list of publications includes numerous books and papers. He also edits international book series such as the Educational Philosophy and Theory Special Issues Monograph Series, and Interventions: Education, Philosophy and Culture as well as international journals, including Educational Philosophy and Theory and Policy Futures in Education; and the Studies in Education, Philosophy and Culture Series. The latter is a journal in China, which I think illustrates Professor Peters’ ambition to make it possible for people throughout the world to contribute to on-going discussions on issues that concern, inter alia, education in different ways.
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Personal Narrative, Educational Research and Multipolar Cosmopolitanism
Personal Narrative, Educational Research and Multipolar Cosmopolitanism
(Personal Narrative, Educational Research and Multipolar Cosmopolitanism)
- Author(s):Morwenna Griffiths
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Education, State/Government and Education, Social Theory
- Page Range:134-148
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:personal narrative; educational research; multipolar cosmopolitanism; knowledge in education; education policy;
- Summary/Abstract:I argue that the current discussion of cosmopolitanism and the cosmopolitan order demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid to the significance of contextual as opposed to generalizable knowledge of education, especially in relation to diversity and injustice within and between regions of the world. This is a familiar, if not uncontroversial, epistemological position in educational research, except that many such arguments ignore the unjust distribution of resources, voice and influence across the post-colonial world. This injustice has been widely discussed in relation to economic and macropolitics but is less often noticed in relation to the global use of educational research in policy and practice. In this article I argue that the use of personal narrative research may be a means for the less resourced, less heard, less influential parts of the world to resist implementing educational policy which is based in research carried out in other contexts, and which may be pernicious in its unintentional effects. It may also be a way of persuading the West to relinquish its modernist hope of overarching universals of propositional and practical knowledge, and acknowledge that the world is not only plural but variously multipolar, a world in which a range of poles exist in tension with the others.
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Michael A. Peters’ Discursive Universalism
Michael A. Peters’ Discursive Universalism
(Michael A. Peters’ Discursive Universalism)
- Author(s):Marianna Papastephanou
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Identity of Collectives
- Page Range:149-158
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Michael A. Peters; universalism; discursive universalism; poststructuralism; Eurocentrism; pluralism;
- Summary/Abstract:Attributing to Michael Peters a discursive universalism, and doing so in the very title of an essay in a Festschrift, comes as a surprise. It may even have a shock effect. For, any reader, even slightly familiar with Michael’s prolific and ongoing interventions in philosophy and in educational theory, will immediately feel that there is something odd in associating with universalism a thinker typically understood as a postmodern and poststructuralist philosopher/educator. Among Michael’s inexhaustibly energetic, highly influential, and paradigm-shifting philosophical-educational contributions his thoughtful elaboration on postmodern criticisms of universalist optics surely stands out. Now, if one adds to all this what I would call Michael’s ‘paganism’ in the Lyotardian (1977) sense, and his commitment to pluralism and particularism, declaring Michael a universalist (albeit of a discursive kind) may sound not just odd but even contradictory.
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Cosmopolitan Outlook: Opening Doors and Letting Learn
Cosmopolitan Outlook: Opening Doors and Letting Learn
(Cosmopolitan Outlook: Opening Doors and Letting Learn)
- Author(s):A. Chr. (Tina) Engels-Schwarzpaul
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Education, Political Theory
- Page Range:159-168
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Michael Peters; education; philosophy; politics; cosmopolitics;
- Summary/Abstract:In 1996, I simply could not find a PhD supervisor in my field of architecture and design at the University of Auckland. Nobody seemed able or willing to supervise a trans-disciplinary thesis located outside the then current disciplinary expertise, habits and fashions. My way of thinking, too, was that of an outsider (German/European, shot through with Māori perspectives adopted over a decade of marriage into Ngāti Porou). Eventually, someone referred me to Michael Peters, because he was well connected and perhaps able to suggest a potential supervisor. Following a series of meetings, Michael suggested that some of my core concerns fitted with those in education and philosophy and offered me supervision. We were both aware that our disciplinary backgrounds were very different: I knew I could not expect an understanding of what matters to designers from Michael. He, in turn, did not expect me to be a philosopher.
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From the Post-colonial to the Intercultural – Are Genuine Intercultural Dialogues Feasible?
From the Post-colonial to the Intercultural – Are Genuine Intercultural Dialogues Feasible?
(From the Post-colonial to the Intercultural – Are Genuine Intercultural Dialogues Feasible?)
- Author(s):Yun-shiuan (Viola) Chen
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Education, State/Government and Education, Social development, Social Theory, Identity of Collectives
- Page Range:169-178
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:intercultural dialogue; feasibility; Michael Peters; education; philosophy;
- Summary/Abstract:Professor Peters’ keynote paper at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA) in 2012 provides the basis for this essay which maintains that the discursive trends from the post-colonial to the intercultural reflect the desire at the policy level to grapple with the increasingly complex interactions between different groups. Nevertheless, the failure to explicitly address uneven positions and dynamisms interwoven by (geo-)political and economic factors among groups prevents the attainment of the goals that dominant policies advocating intercultural dialogues seek to achieve.
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On Being Open: Michael A. Peters and the Quest for Intercultural Education through Dialogue
On Being Open: Michael A. Peters and the Quest for Intercultural Education through Dialogue
(On Being Open: Michael A. Peters and the Quest for Intercultural Education through Dialogue)
- Author(s):Yusef Waghid
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Education, Social development, Scientific Life, Inter-Ethnic Relations
- Page Range:179-184
- No. of Pages:6
- Keywords:scientific life; Michael A. Peters; education; dialogue; intercultural education; educational philosophy;
- Summary/Abstract:I consider myself to be privileged to contribute an essay to this Festschrift in honor of the life and works of Michael A. Peters for three reasons: I have known Michael for almost a decade and have always encountered him as a person with profound dignity and openness (Peters & Roberts, 2012) often unparalleled in the highly competitive and at times inhumane world of academic intellectualism; his relentless commitment and advocacy for ‘academic responsibility without conditions’ (Trifonas & Peters, 2005: 8) as is evident from his analytically admirable and pragmatically astute way in which he endeavors to address some of the problems that confront education in the modern world; and his passion for interculturalism, education and dialogue (Besley & Peters, 2012) as epistemological and practical responses to educational challenges that inspired him and Tina Besley to set up the Centre for Global Studies in Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand – a Centre I visited to do some work on intercultural education during the month of September 2012. As a tribute to Michael for his continuous commitment to educational philosophy and theory and, scholarship in general, I examine the concepts of openness, dialogue, and responsibility in relation to education – themes that feature strongly in his most recent works.
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Liber amicorum: A Philosophical Conversation among Friends
Liber amicorum: A Philosophical Conversation among Friends
(Liber amicorum: A Philosophical Conversation among Friends)
- Author(s):Michael A. Peters
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Education, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Analytic Philosophy, Higher Education , Scientific Life
- Page Range:185-202
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:scientific life; academic friendship; Michael A. Peters; book of friends; philosophical conversation;
- Summary/Abstract:This festschrift is a “liber amicorum” (“book of friends”) and as a philosopher of sorts I am interested in the genre and in its cultural invention as a means of understanding how I might proceed. I am greatly honored that my friends and colleagues should take the time to respond to the themes in my work and I am particularly grateful that such a group of international and able scholars have contributed. So let me express my deep appreciation and respond in the only manner I know how. After years of university life it is difficult to invent new forms or to experiment when the rituals and habits of critical thought anchor me in a series of set plays.
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Endword Michael Peters: Gentle Polymath and Commanding Intellectual
Endword Michael Peters: Gentle Polymath and Commanding Intellectual
(Endword Michael Peters: Gentle Polymath and Commanding Intellectual)
- Author(s):Peter McLaren
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Education, Higher Education , Scientific Life
- Page Range:203-209
- No. of Pages:7
- Keywords:Michael A. Peters; scientific life; endword; philosophy;
- Summary/Abstract:It may strike the genteel reader as odd that a revolutionary Marxist humanist educator is penning the endword to a volume dedicated to the storied postmodernist/poststructuralist philosopher from Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. And whilst some might view ending a book about the person and work of Mike Peters with a Postface by an author whose own work has been largely and on occasion virulently inhospitable to post-structuralism over the past several decades as a risky preemptory wager, it wouldn’t seem odd to Mike Peters. He would no doubt be pleased if I were to instantiate an ambiguous Marxist co-presence into a volume celebrating his work, not because he has any particular affinity with the well-trodden path and contradictory history of Marxism, but because of his indefatigable commitment to including diverse systems of intelligibility in examining the nature of our contentious present with its seemingly intractable social and political disjunctions. Mike is a warrior for diversity, it’s part of his ontological clarity and is what makes him such a commanding intellectual and a man of both the future and present. Mike writes in a white heat, spinning his ideas into the eschatological future where is he able to announce a state of affairs that both is and is to come.
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Postscript on Marxism
Postscript on Marxism
(Postscript on Marxism)
- Author(s):Michael A. Peters
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Marxism, Scientific Life
- Page Range:210-215
- No. of Pages:6
- Keywords:Michael A. Peters; postscript; Marxism; scientific life;
- Summary/Abstract:Peter McLaren wrote this piece last and so I come to it last and have recast it as an endword rather than a foreword because I think this will become the basis for an ongoing dialogue of which this exchange is only the first stage. It is so different from the other articles that I decided to engage with it as a postscript or endnote. Peter is a great friend. He is a “mate” as we say in New Zealand and I regard him as a brother and it is with affection that I engage with his ideas here. Where a number of the other contributors attempted to define me in their terms—I am a secret Kantian, universalist or cosmopolitan even if I don’t already know it—Peter seeks to define me by what I’m not and especially by contrast to what he is—a revolutionary Marxist. And he takes up the cudgels on behalf of revolutionary Marxism against postmodernism and poststructuralism which are movements that allegedly define me. This is a tricky assignment for Peter as a revolutionary Marxist because he is on record as being against both postmodernism and poststructuralism and yet at the same time he is my friend and wants to be able to be respectful and to say some nice things. He manages to achieve this very well and with eloquence. I am both flattered and relieved frankly— that we can remain good friends. But I like him and treat him as a brother (even though I have qualms about “brotherhoods”) not because he is a revolutionary Marxist but despite it. He could have been a Mormon.
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Publications of Michael A. Peters
Publications of Michael A. Peters
(Publications of Michael A. Peters)
- Author(s):Author Not Specified
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Economy, Education, Bibliography, Political Theory, Government/Political systems, Political economy, State/Government and Education
- Page Range:216-249
- No. of Pages:34
- Keywords:Michael A. Peters; publications; bibliography;
- Price: 4.50 €
