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Intro -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations to Ludwig Wittgenstein's Works -- Contents -- Part IHistorical Background -- 1 Introduction: Two Conceptions of Rationality -- (a) Overview of Central Arguments -- (b) The Notion of Absolute Rationality -- (c) The Notion of Constitutive Rationality -- (d) Chapter Summary -- Bibliography -- 2 The Problem of Rationality and the Tradition of Philosophy-as-Epistemology -- (a) The Problem of Rationality -- (b) The Reflexive and Linguistic Turns -- (c) Wittgenstein and the Rise of Linguistic Philosophy -- Bibliography -- Part IIRationality and Philosophy of Education -- 3 The Autonomy of Analytic Philosophy of Education -- (a) Introduction -- (b) The Autonomy of Analytic Philosophy of Education -- (c) The Method of Conceptual Analysis and the Importance of Context -- References -- 4 Three Theories of Knowledge in Education -- (a) Introduction and the Analytic Theory of Philosophy of Education -- (b) The Marxist Critique of Analytic Philosophy of Education and the "Knowledge as Production" Thesis -- The Marxist Critique of Analytic Philosophy of Education -- The Knowledge as Production Thesis -- (c) Young's Epistemology: The Sociology of Knowledge Thesis -- (d) Towards a Reconciliation of Structuralism and Humanism -- References -- Part IIIConstitutive Rationality and Historicism -- 5 The Force of Historicism in the Philosophy of Science -- (a) Two Conceptions of Rationality Re-Visited -- (b) Foundationalist (Absolutist) Epistemology -- (c) Non-Foundationalism-Popper's Critical Rationalism -- (d) The Relevance of the History of Science: Kuhn's "Paradigms" -- (e) Lakatos' Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes -- (f) The "Historicist" Turn: New Directions -- (g) Postscript: Educational Theory and the "Historicist" Turn -- References -- 6 Hermeneutics, Social Theory and Education.

Introduction : truth, value and the philosopher as cultural physician : Wittgenstein, Lyotard and the philosophy of technoscience -- The ethics of reading Wittgenstein -- Wittgensteinas exile : a philosophical topography -- Wittgensteinand the ethics of suicide : homosexuality and Jewish self-hatred in fin de siècle Vienna -- Wittgensteinand post-analytic philosophy of education : Rorty or Lyotard? -- Wittgenstein at Cambridge : philosophy as a way of life -- A picture holds us captive : Wittgenstein and the German tradition of Weltanschuung -- Kinds of thinking, styles of reasoning.

Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Governmental Policy Analysis -- Chapter Three: The Policy Departure -- Chapter Four: The Policy Problemetisation -- Chapter Five: Official Discourses of Economics -- Chapter Six: Official Discourses of Security -- Chapter Seven: A governmental account of the policy -- Chapter Eight: Evaluating the Policy -- Chapter Nine: Conclusion

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Bio -- Acknowledgements -- Endorsements -- Introduction. Prospects of a Liberal Cosmopolitan Order -- Chapter 1. Problematizing Liberal Cosmopolitanisms: Foucault and Neoliberal Cosmopolitan Governmentality -- Chapter 2. "After" Auschwitz: Ethics and Educational Policy -- Chapter 3. Emancipation, Education and Philosophies of History: Jean-François Lyotard and Cultural Difference -- Chapter 4. Humanism and Education: Heidegger, Derrida and the New Humanities -- Chapter 5. The University and the New Humanities: Professing with Derrida -- Chapter 6. The Postmodern State, Security and World Order -- Chapter 7. Between Empires: Rethinking Identity and Citizenship in the Context of Globalization -- Chapter 8. Education in an Age of Terrorism: A Different Education? -- Chapter 9. War as Globalization and Globalization as War: The "Education" of the Iraqi People -- Chapter 10. Crimes against Humanity: Derrida, the New Humanities and the Promise of Europe -- Chapter 11. Europa, Europeanization, and Europe: Constituting New Europeans -- Chapter 12. Rights to Education and the Learning Citizen in European Democracy -- Chapter 13. The Ghostly Promise of Enlightenment Europe: Habermas, Derrida and the Predicament of the West -- Chapter 14. Inventing Human Rights: A Social Theory of Right and the Juridical Construction of the Subject -- Chapter 15. Re-thinking Education as a Welfare Right -- Chapter 16. Why Equality Matters -- Chapter 17. The End of Development as We Know It: Fukuyama on Democracy Promotion and Political Development -- Chapter 18. The Cold Peace (with James Thayer) -- Chapter 19. The Political Economy of Information Democracy -- Chapter 20. Personalization and Molecular Governance in the Digitized Society.

The American Dream that crystallized around James Truslow Adams' The Epic of America originally formulated in the early 1930s and was conditioned by a decade of complexity and contradiction, of big government projects, intensely fierce nationalism, the definition of the American way, and a distinctive collection of American iconic narratives has had the power and force to successively reshape America for every new generation. Indeed, Adam's dream of opportunity for each according to ability or achievement shaped against the old class culture of Europe emphasizes a vision of social order in which each person can succeed despite their social origins. Barack Obama, a skillful rhetorician and intelligent politician, talks of restoring the American and has used its narrative resources to define his campaign and his policies. In a time of international and domestic crisis, of massive sovereign debt, of the failure of neoliberalism, of growing inequalities, the question is whether the American Dream and the vision of an equal education on which it rests can be revitalized