Instrumentality after Radical Lack, Education, and Populism as Co-Prosthetic

Authors

  • Atif Abdellatif

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26881/ae.2021.18.08

Keywords:

Education, Populism, Instrumentality, Antagonism, Radical Negativity

Abstract

This contribution refuses two positions: one defends education against instrumentality, and the other reduces education to a political instrument. Alternatively, it recognizes instrumentality as precarious but necessary. Thus, with focus on populist articulations, education is instrumentalized as a demand to fix the people's incompleteness. However, both education and the people are lacking totalities, and it is through their articulation as prosthetic bodies one to the other that they help each other to be, however without fully being 

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Published

2021-11-14

How to Cite

Atif, A. (2021). Instrumentality after Radical Lack, Education, and Populism as Co-Prosthetic. Ars Educandi, 18(18), 129–142. https://doi.org/10.26881/ae.2021.18.08

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Artykuły i rozprawy