Socrates Tenured

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"Diagnoses the pathologies of contemporary philosophy and shows how the field can be revitalized. The firs tpart of this book sketches the crisis facing philosophy in a neoliberal age and traces its roots back to the twentieth-century move to turn philosophy into an academic discipline. In the second part, the authors look at various attempts from applied ethics to their own brand of 'field philosophy' to confront the resulting problems of insularity and societal irrelevance. Part three connects this evaluation of philosophy with wider discussions in the politics of knowledge about the impacts of research on society. The final chapters consider both what impacts philosophy might have and what a philosophy of impact might look like"--

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Other Editions

• Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st-Century PhilosophyRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated2016-01-01
• Socrates TenuredRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated2016-01-01