Education as Critique—‘Un-thinking’ Education

Abstract

This chapter asks—what can we learn from Foucault the teacher, the intellectual? How can we use Foucault to uneducate ourselves? It answers that we are invited to learn an attitude, a method, a relation to our own historicity, and our existence within and in relation to power. We are invited to learn the possibility of modifying our relation to our self and to our mode of existence. It is also made clear that this is an ‘ethics of discomfort’ or a form of ‘ethical violence’.