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At the Wake, or the Return of Metaphysics
Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Children, Youth and Society (BUS).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1669-7132
2018 (English)In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, ISSN 0013-1857, E-ISSN 1469-5812, Vol. 50, no 14, p. 1462-1463Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
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We have all been told of the death of grand narratives. We have been told that the days of asking eternal metaphysical questions in philosophy are long since over. When Wittgenstein’s (1953/2009, p. 174) famous spade hit bedrock it reminded us that we had better stop wasting our time on lofty questions without answers. Foucault (1970) prompted us to recall Borges’story of a certain Chinese encyclopedia showing us that there are many ways of ordering the world and that each way changes the rules of the game a little bit. We found that history was contingent and that hierarchies, however firmly built, would all crumble in the end. In its place were the slightly disorienting feeling following the postmodernist’s proclamation of ‘the elusiveness of meaning and knowledge’ (Kirby, 2017, p. 5).

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Taylor & Francis, 2018. Vol. 50, no 14, p. 1462-1463
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Philosophy of education, Postmodernism, Metaphysics, Scepticism
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-2954DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2018.1458783ISI: 000451474500076Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85057149497Local ID: 26888OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-2954DiVA, id: diva2:1399754
Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2024-12-19Bibliographically approved

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