Education and the Spirit of Time
My newest book, co-edited with Olli-Pekka Moisio, Education and the Spirit of Time is (finally) out.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
Contributors ix
Introduction: From Re-action to Action in Contemporary Social Sciences? 1
Olli-Pekka Moisio and Juha Suoranta
I. Historical Transformations
1. The Fate of Humanity in the Post-Trinitarian World 9
Zygmunt Bauman
2. Biotechnology, Democracy, and the Politics of Cloning 23
Steven Best and Douglas Kellner
3. The Globalization Effect 55
Sakari Hänninen
4. Ukraine’s Orange Revolution and the Quest for Omnilateral Liberation 73
Chris Ford
II. Global Politics
5. The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity 91
Martin Jay
6. A Global Culture of Terror: A Marxist Riposte 109
Peter McLaren
7. How to Remember the Holocaust? 131
Tuija Parvikko
8. Are Suicide Bombings Morally Justifiable? 153
Richard Wolin
III. Critical Education
9. Driving as a Manifestation of the Essence of the Current Historical
Moment 161
Ilan Gur-Ze’ev
10. Six Theses on Class, Global Capital and Resistance by Education
and Other Cultural Workers 191
Dave Hill
11. The World as a Playground of Self-Builders 219
Petteri Niemi
12. Critical Pedagogy and Ideology Critique as Zeitgeist Analysis 243
Olli-Pekka Moisio and Juha Suoranta