Georges Sorel’s ideas about education are key to making sense of his critique of the Third Republic. Cutting across the heated debates over classical as opposed to modern curricula, Sorel drew on a complex account of the nature of scientific knowledge to offer a sustained defense of education within the factory and on the picket line as a source of individual autonomy. Sorel’s refusal of the practices and modes of institutionalization of liberal education in his own time is a standing challenge for those who would defend liberal education today.
Romain Felli teaches political science at the University of Lausanne, and is a post-doctoral researcher in science studies at the University of Basel. He has published on environmental governance and the neoliberalisation of adaptation to climate change in New Political Economy and Environment and Planning A. He is currently researching trade union strategies on the environment and the climate, as well as the political economy of 'resilience'.
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