Abstract

It is no more than a platitude to say that philosophy has tended to be pursued in different ways in France and in the English-speaking world. I have to confess that I do not resonate to some of the French texts (the work of Foucault and Lyotard, for example) referred to by colleagues in philosophy of education. Much of this seems to me to be reprising the case about the relationship between power and exploitation that entered into popular discourse following the riots of May 1968 in France. However, examination of themes and articles in this Journal alongside those in Télémaque, founded in 1994, reveals a growing convergence in choice of, and approach to, philosophical issues. The reader now gets a sense of a scholarly community using different languages but nonetheless involved in a common enterprise.