What is education? This volume collects some of the foremost voices in contemporary thought to think through this question from their unique perspectives. Revealing the contentions and possibilities of a new engagement with the question of education, it provides fresh insights into education: what it is, what it is not, and what is to be done about it. At a time when education is so important as to be considered an essential ‘human right’, and yet is under attack from funding cuts, government policies and fundamentalists, this book will open the thinking on education onto new and important territory.

This book sets itself a difficult and essential task: nothing less than opening a new epoch of thought on the practice of what education is. * Alain Badiou *
This book sets itself a difficult and essential task: nothing less than opening a new epoch of thought on the practice of what education is. -- Alain Badiou

A. J. Bartlett is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Research Unit in European Philosophy at Monash University. He is the author of Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths (Edinburgh University Press, hb 2011, pb 2015) and translator, with Alex Ling, of Badiou's Mathematics of the Transcendental (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). Justin Clemens is Associate Professor in Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on psychoanalysis, contemporary European philosophy and Australian art and literature. His recent books include What is Education? edited with A.J. Bartlett and The Afterlives of Georges Perec edited with Rowan Wilken.