Marxism, Pedagogy, and the General Intellect: Beyond the Knowledge Economy (1st ed. 2021)

By: Derek R. Ford

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Synopsis: This book is the first to articulate and challenge the consensus on the right and left that knowledge is the key to any problem, demonstrating how the left’s embrace of knowledge productivity keeps it trapped within capital’s circuits. As the knowledge economy has forced questions of education to the forefront, the book engages pedagogy as an underlying yet neglected motor of capitalism and its forms of oppression. Most importantly, it assembles new pedagogical resources for responding to the range of injustices that permeate our world. Building on yet critiquing the Marxist notion of the general intellect, Derek R. Ford theorizes stupidity as a necessary alternative pedagogical logic, an anti-value that is infinitely mute and unproductive.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783030838348
Related ISBNs:: 9783030838331
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 10/27/21
Copyrighted By:: The Author
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Education, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
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