Giacomo Clemente
Biographical Note
Giacomo Clemente is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has been visiting professor at UBA, University of Buenos Aires. He has published translations and articles on topics including post-althusserian theory, ontology and discourse analysis.
Readership
This book is especially relevanto to philosophers, political philosophers, scholars of 20th-century French philosophy, social scientists, pedagogy experts, Marxists, historians of philosophy, and humanities students.
Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xxviii
Introduction 1
1 Pedagogical Function and Class Struggle: On the Genesis and Structure
of ‘Student Problems’ 13
Introduction 13
1 Technical Division and Social Division 15
2 The Pedagogical Function 22
3 ‘Just because we are stepping onto a train it doesn’t mean we know how
to drive it!’: On the Genesis of ‘Student Problems’ 26
4 Knowledge as a Commodity: André Gorz on the Contradictions
within (Academic) Capital 43
5 Knowledge as a Commodity: J-P. Milbergue on the Internal
Contradictions of the (Capitalist) University 54
2 The School Does Not Exist: Scholastic Mythology and Ideological
Reproduction in Pierre Macherey 68
Introduction 68
1 The School and the Text: Representation and Synecdoche 75
2 The Mechanisms of Fiction: Generation by Reduction and
Pedagogical Separation 84
3 The Mechanisms of Fiction: Functioning by Pedagogical Analogy as
an Act of Ideological Belief 88
4 Five Hypotheses about School Apparatuses 93
4.1 First Hypothesis 94
4.2 Second Hypothesis 96
4.3 Third Hypothesis 96
4.4 Fourth Hypothesis 98
4.5 Fifth Hypothesis 99
5 Culture and Ideology: Roger Establet 101
6 On the Ownership of the Means of Expression (and the Genesis of
the Class-Based School): Michel Tort 120
3 ‘Schools’ 137
Introduction 137
1 Schools i: The Ideological Representations of the School and their
Theoretical Identification 150
2 Schools ii: The Characteristics of the School-Form as a Social
Form 163
3 Schools iii: Schooling and Wage Labour 177
4 Schooling and the Reproduction of Labour Power 182
5 Once Again on Wage Theory: The Wage-Form and the Notions of
‘Labour’ and ‘Qualification’ 189
6 Schooling as a ‘Technical’ Criterion for Measuring ‘Qualification’ and
as a Principle for Establishing Individual Attitudes 201
4 Outlines of the History and Geography of Class-Based School
Education 214
Introduction 214
1 On the Historical-Geographical Differences in the Establishment of
Schools in Three Capitalist Countries 219
2 The école préparatoire and the école progressive as Ideological Forms
of the Class-Based School 224
3 On the Historical Processes of Formation of the Class-Based School:
The Antediluvian Forms 226
4 The Transition Phase: A Look at the French Case 236
Afterword 245
References 253
Index 258
