Poststructuralism-as a name for a mode of thinking, a style of philosophizing, a kind of writing-has exercised a profound influence upon contemporary Western thought and the institution of the university. As a French and predominantly Parisian affair, poststructuralism is inseparable from the intellectual milieu of postwar France, a world dominated by Alexandre Kojève's and Jean Hyppolite's interpretations of Hegel, Jacques Lacan's reading of Freud, Gaston Bachelard's epistemology, George Canguilhem's studies of science, and Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism. It is also inseparable from the structuralist tradition of linguistics based upon the work of Ferdinand de Saussure and Roman Jacobson, and the structuralist interpretations of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Louis Althusser, and the early Michel Foucault. Poststructuralism, considered in terms of contemporary cultural history, can be understood as belonging to the broad movement of European formalism, with explicit historical links to both Formalist and Futurist linguistics and poetics, and with aspects of the European avant-garde, especially André Breton's surrealism. Each essay in this unique collection by and for educators is devoted to the work and educational significance of one of ten major poststructuralist philosophers.

Series Foreword
Introduction: Naming the Multiple: Poststructuralism and Education by Michael Peters
Jacques Lacan: Ideal-I and Image, Subject and Signification by Stephen Appel
Louis Althusser: Poststructuralist Materialist by J. M. Fritzman
Michel Foucault: Philosophy, Education and Freedom as an Exercise Upon the Self by James Marshall
Julia Kristeva: Intertextuality and Education by Lucy Holmes
Jacques Derrida: The Ends of Pedagogy--From the Dialectic of Memory to the Deconstruction of the Institution by Peter Trifonis
Gilles Deleuze: Practicing Education Through Flight and Gossip by Mary Leach and Megan Boler
Jean-François Lyotard: Education for Imaginative Knowledge by A. T. Nuyen
Luce Irigaray: One Subject Is Not Enough--Irigaray and Levinas Face-to-Face with Education by Betsan Martin
Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Terrorist Pedagogy by Peter McLaren and Zeus Leonardo
Chantal Mouffe: Pedagogy for Democratic Citizenship by Majia Holmer Nadesan and C. Alejandra Elenes