澳洲assignment代写:教育、平等和政治
1.Foucault’s Project
In “What is Enlightenment,” Foucault retrospectively characterises his project as a “critical ontology of ourselves” or a “historical ontology of ourselves.” Explain what Foucault means by this term, and how one of his major works (Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish, History of Sexuality) presents an aspect of this project.
2.Foucault and Kant
Compare and contrast Kant’s “What is Enlightenment?” with Foucault’s essay of the same name. In what way does Foucault’s essay remain within and yet exceed Kant’s framework?
3.Lyotard’s Differend
What does Lyotard mean by the “differend”?How does he take the differend to respond to and elaborate a theory of justice in postmodern social conditions? Is it a successful response?
4.Lyotard’s Differendand Rancière’s Politics
In what way doesRancière’s description of politics offer a critical perspective on Lytoard’s conception of the “differend”? Are there any features of Lyotard’s conception of the differend that may furnish a counter-critique of Rancière’s views?
5.Education, Equality, and Politics (Rancière)
What is the relation between Rancière’s work on education and his mature account of equality in Dis-agreement? Does Rancière take equality to function in the same way in pedagogical and political contexts? If so, is he right to?
6.Fraser’s History of Second-Wave Feminism
Fraser characterises the emancipatory promise of second-wave feminism as now in “disturbing convergence” with the ideological demands of neoliberal society. Carefully unpack and critically assess Fraser’s position with reference to contemporary feminist scholarship.
7.Politics and Literature (Deleuze and Guattari)
In their book Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature, Deleuze and Guattari describe a functional account of language. Identify and describe the main features of this account and evaluate its applicability to Kafka. Describe and evaluate what the authors see as the political implications of “minor literature.”
8.Bodies and Languages (Deleuze and Guattari)
In the “Order Word” chapter of A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari treat the “incorporeal transformation” of “machinic assemblages” by “collective assemblages of enunciation.” Explain Deleuze and Guattari’s understanding of these terms and critically assess their relevance to and potential for a critical theory of society.
