Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), USA.

Michael Peters has spent the last 30 years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in education. He has contributed over 50 books and 500 articles to the field. In this book, Michael Peters brings together 15 of his key writings in one place, including chapters from his best-selling books and articles from leading journals. Starting with a specially written Introduction, which gives an overview of Michael's career and contextualises his selection, the chapters are divided into five sections:

* Wittgenstein Studies

* Philosophical Critique of Modernity

* French Poststructuralism

* American Pragmatism

* Applied educational philosophy

Through this book, readers can track the themes and strands that Michael Peters has written about for over three decades and follow his important contribution to the field of education.

Introduction. Educational Philosophy and Politics 1. Philosophy as Pedagogy: Wittgenstein's Styles of Thinking 2. Writing the Self: Wittgenstein, Confession and Pedagogy 3. Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Critique of Modernity: Post-Nietzschean Philosophy of Education 4. Heidegger, Education and Modernity 5. Truth-Telling as an Educational Practice of the Self: Foucault, Parrhesia and the Ethics of Subjectivity 6. Neoliberal Governmentality: Foucault on the Birth of Biopolitics 7. Lyotard, Nihilism and Education 8. Gilles Deleuze's 'Societies of Control': From Disciplinary Pedagogy to Perpetual Training 9. Geophilosophy, Education and the Pedagogy of the Concept 10. Humanism, Derrida, and the New Humanities 11. Politics and Deconstruction: Derrida, Neoliberalism, and Democracy to Come 12. Ethnocentrism and the Politics of the Ethnos: Rorty's 'Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism' 13. Achieving America: Postmodernism and Rorty's Critique of the Cultural Left 14. Deranging the Investigations: Cavell on the Philosophy of the Child 15. White Philosophy in/of America