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Tracks to Infinity, The Long Road to Justice: The Peter McLaren Reader, Volume II: 2 (Marxist, Socialist, and Communist Studies in Education) - Softcover

Book 3 of 4: Marxist, Socialist, and Communist Studies in Education

Marc Prutyn (editor), Curry Malott (editor) & Luis Huerta-Charles (editor)

 
9781641136624: Tracks to Infinity, The Long Road to Justice: The Peter McLaren Reader, Volume II: 2 (Marxist, Socialist, and Communist Studies in Education)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1641136626 ISBN 13: 9781641136624
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2020

Synopsis

Whereas This Fist Called My Heart, the first Peter McLaren reader (2016), offers a window into the development and reorientation of McLaren’s work over time, Tracks to Infinity emphasizes the significance of orientation in his contemporary work. McLaren’s earlier work was oriented toward the idea of a contradictory postmodern subjectivity located outside the increasingly fragmented, indeterminate late capitalist society. If the concept of the critical subject or change agent is perceived to be simultaneously located both inside and outside of the world that exists, however mundane, it begins to appear as a utopian or idealist construction.

While discourse is indeed important, locating the revolutionary potential exclusively within the abstract realm of language or the sign can lead to a disconnected relationship with the concreteness of everyday struggle. As the fog of the disembodied, postmodern subject began to lift, McLaren reoriented his engagement with and gaze toward the concrete value-creating laborer as the active agent of revolutionary educations’ process of becoming—collectively becoming something other than abstract labor. This volume is filled with deep engagements with the concreteness of lived experience juxtaposed next to the bourgeois propaganda of the capitalist class political establishment as manifested in the Trump era.

 

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About the Author

Marc Pruyn, Monash University

Curry Malott, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Luis Huerta-Charles, New Mexico State University

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Publisher
Information Age Publishing
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1641136626
ISBN 13 
9781641136624
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
344