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Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
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Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
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Education is a violent act, yet this violence is concealed by its
good intent. Education presents itself as a distinctly improving,
enabling practice. Even its most radical critics assume that
education is, at core, an incontestable social good. Setting
education in its political context, this book, now in paperback,
offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of
modern schooling and modern examination, to the rise (and fall) of
meritocracy. In challenging all that is well-intentioned in
education, it reveals how our educational commitments are always
underwritten by violence. Our highest ideals have the lowest
origins. Seeking to unsettle a settled conscience, Benign Violence:
Education in and beyond the Age of Reason is designed to disturb
the reader. Education constitutes us as subjects; we owe our
existence to its violent inscriptions. Those who refuse or rebel
against our educational present must begin by objecting to the
subjects we have become.
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