Drawing from Foucault, Derrida, Nietzsche and Rancière, this book explores questions of genealogy, ontology, the body and the institution, offering key examples of theoretical applications of post-structural theory, which testify to the generative and endlessly applicable potential of this work to inform different fields and avenues of thought.

Introduction: The Critical Ontology of Ourselves: Lessons from the Philosophy of the Subject Michael A. Peters and Marek Tesar. Beyond the Philosophy of the Subject: Liberalism, Education and the Critique of Individualism Michael Peters and James Marshall. Peters and Marshall on the Philosophy of the Subject Jim Mackenzie. After the Subject: A Response to Mackenzie Michael Peters & James Marshall. Michel Foucault: Problematising the Individual and Constituting 'The' Self James D. Marshall. Governmental, Political and Pedagogic Subjectivation: Foucault with Rancière Maarten Simons and Jan Masschelein. Derrida, Pedagogy and the Calculation of the Subject Michael A. Peters. The 'End' of Kant-in-Himself: Nietzschean Difference Peter Fitzsimons. Disciplining the Profession: Subjects Subject to Procedure Paul Standish. Learner, Student, Speaker: Why it Matters How We Call Those We Teach Gert Biesta. Promoting a Just Education: Dilemmas of Rights, Freedom and Justice Sharon Todd. Social Education and Mental Hygiene: Foucault, Disciplinary Technologies and the Moral Constitution of Youth Tina Besley.