Thoreau wrote that we have professors of philosophy but no philosophers. Can't we have both? Why doesn't philosophy hold a more central place in our lives? Why should it? Eloquently opposing the analytic thrust of philosophy in academia, noted pluralist philosopher Bruce Wilshire answers these questions and more in an effort to make philosophy more meaningful to our everyday li...
Thoreau wrote that we have professors of philosophy but no philosophers. Can't we have both? Why doesn't philosophy hold a more central place in our lives? Why should it? Eloquently opposing the analytic thrust of philosophy in academia, noted pluralist philosopher Bruce Wilshire answers these questions and more in an effort to make philosophy more meaningful to our everyday lives. Writing in an accessible style he resurrects classic yet neglected forms of inquiring and communicating. In a series of personal essays, Wilshire describes what is wrong with the current state of philosophy in American higher education, namely the cozy but ultimately suffocating confinements of professionalism. He reclaims the role of the philosopher as one who, like Socrates, would goad us out of self-contentedness into a more authentic way of being and knowing.
作者简介
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Bruce Wilshire is Senior Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He received the Herbert Schneider Lifetime Achievement Award for 2001 from the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. He is the author of many books, including most recently, The Primal Roots of American Philosophy: Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought.
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Preface / xi
1 Nihilistic Consequences of Analytic Philosophy / 1
2 “The Ph.D. Octopus”: William James’s Prophetic Grasp of the Failures of Academic Professionalism / 31
3 The Pluralist Rebellion in the American Philosophical Association / 51
4 Phenomenology in the United States / 65
5 Nature or Nurture?: The Significance of Indigenous Thought / 95
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Preface / xi
1 Nihilistic Consequences of Analytic Philosophy / 1
2 “The Ph.D. Octopus”: William James’s Prophetic Grasp of the Failures of Academic Professionalism / 31
3 The Pluralist Rebellion in the American Philosophical Association / 51
4 Phenomenology in the United States / 65
5 Nature or Nurture?: The Significance of Indigenous Thought / 95
6 Conceptual Problems in Grasping Genocide / 107
7 Henry Bugbee: Philospher of Intimacy / 119
8 William James on the “Spiritual” / 129
9 Looking for Bek / 135
Acknowledgments / 149
Index / 151
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In fact, for many professionalized philosophers perennial possibilities for exploration are concealed, and the concealment is concealed. They automatically assume that philosophy must be written in prose—or at least be writable in that form—and that it must be done so in the most impersonal possible way. Philosophy is not exactly science, they think, but it must resemble science in its style and mood of detachment: its appearance of being without any particular person's or any particular group's biases. Even an analytic paper in metaphysics must cast a spell of cool reserve, as if, well, "that's what the concepts dictate, like it or not." Anyone, then, who writes in a personal manner obviously lacks rigor and discipline. Probably an added judgment is made: that person is narcissistic and s... (查看原文)
It used to be philosophy's province to investigate the soul-but no longer, it is thought. Now we have the sciences of psychology, psycho-therapy, sociology, personnel management—and various "rational dispositions of human resources." Philosophers need no longer write the personal essay, say, or the confession; they can cooperate with the progress of science and write their quasi-scientific, personally detached, conceptual analyses of what's left over after other modes of inquiry have taken their bites.
No doubt, particular sciences sometimes contribute mightily to alleviating certain forms of psychopathology, and to rectifying human derangements properly termed clinical. But what happens when philosophers conclude that they need no longer participate personally in what Socrates called "the... (查看原文)
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Preface很好，第一第二章没有表达出比Preface更多的内容，其实期待更精致有深度的历史的对academia中的nihilism的论证或case study