David Geoffrey Smith
International Forum on Education and Society,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
On Enfraudening the Public Sphere, the Futility of Empire and the Future of Knowledge after 'America'
ABSTRACT This article examines various ways the current Bush Administration in the USA is conducting an information war to mask its larger imperial aims. The implications of this for public education and for the meaning of public knowledge are explored, particularly through Enrique Dussel's analysis of Euro-American modernity. The 'myth' of modernity has two faces, the surface face of 'emancipative reason' and the historically silenced underside face of 'sacrificial reason.' Understanding the continuity between these is foundational for any new global ethic, and for the epistemic conditions of future human knowing.
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