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Individualism and Community »

Authors: Michael Peters, James Marshall
ISBN-13: 9780750704854, ISBN-10: 0750704853
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: March 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Preface and Acknowledgments
	List of Figures
	Introduction: The Crisis of the Welfare State in the Postmodern Condition	1
Sect. I	Communitarian Approaches to the Crisis
1	Social Policy and the Move to Community	21
2	Democracy and Community-based Social Policy	34
3	Welfare and the Future of Community: The New Zealand Experiment	51
Sect. II	Neo-liberal Individualism
4	The New Right Reforms of Education	65
5	The Politics of Choice: Public Choice Theory and the Autonomous Chooser	77
6	Children of Rogernomics: The New Right, Individualism and the Culture of Narcissism	98
Sect. III	Methodological Responses to the Crisis
7	From Education to Evaluation: The Ideal Learning Community	115
8	Educational Policy Analysis and the Politics of Interpretation	137
Sect. IV	The Postmodern 'Way Out'
9	Postmodernism: The Critique of Reason and the Rise of the New Social Movements	157
10	Beyond the Philosophy of the Subject: Liberalism, Education and the Critique of Individualism	173
11	Individualism and Community: Education and the Politics of Difference	191
	Conclusion: Critical Social Policy in the Postmodern Condition	207
	Bibliography	215
	Index	235