Marxism, Pedagogy, and the General Intellect: Beyond the Knowledge Economy

Ford, Derek R.

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2021-09-27

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030838331

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83834-8

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 117