Drawing from Foucault, Derrida, Nietzsche and Rancière, this book explores questions of genealogy, ontology, the body and the institution, offering key examples of theoretical applications of post-structural theory, which testify to the generative and endlessly applicable potential of this work to inform different fields and avenues of thought.

Introduction: The Critical Ontology of Ourselves: Lessons from the Philosophy of the Subject Michael A. Peters and Marek Tesar. Beyond the Philosophy of the Subject: Liberalism, Education and the Critique of Individualism Michael Peters and James Marshall. Peters and Marshall on the Philosophy of the Subject Jim Mackenzie. After the Subject: A Response to Mackenzie Michael Peters & James Marshall. Michel Foucault: Problematising the Individual and Constituting 'The' Self James D. Marshall. Governmental, Political and Pedagogic Subjectivation: Foucault with Rancière Maarten Simons and Jan Masschelein. Derrida, Pedagogy and the Calculation of the Subject Michael A. Peters. The 'End' of Kant-in-Himself: Nietzschean Difference Peter Fitzsimons. Disciplining the Profession: Subjects Subject to Procedure Paul Standish. Learner, Student, Speaker: Why it Matters How We Call Those We Teach Gert Biesta. Promoting a Just Education: Dilemmas of Rights, Freedom and Justice Sharon Todd. Social Education and Mental Hygiene: Foucault, Disciplinary Technologies and the Moral Constitution of Youth Tina Besley.

Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand and Emeritus Professor in Educational Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the executive editor of the journal, Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Marek Tesar is a lecturer in Education at The University of Auckland, New Zealand with a focus on philosophy of education and childhood studies. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Educational Philosophy and Theory.