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Disciplinary Decadence - Lewis R. Gordon

Disciplinary Decadence

Living Thought in Trying Times

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Buch | Hardcover
184 Seiten
2006
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-59451-255-1 (ISBN)
CHF 359,95 inkl. MwSt
In this book, philosopher and social critic Lewis Gordon explores the ossification of disciplines, which he calls disciplinary decadence. In response, he offers a theory of what he calls a teleological suspension of disciplinarity, in which he encourages scholars and lay intellectuals to pay attention to the openness of ideas and purposes on which their disciplines were born. Gordon builds his case through discussions of philosophy of education, problems of secularization in religious thought, obligations across generations, notions of invention in the study of ideas, decadence in development, colonial epistemologies, and the quest for a genuine postcolonial language. These topics are examined with the underlying diagnosis of the present political and academic environment as one in which it is indecent to think.

Lewis R. Gordon is a Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies at Temple University. He also is President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association and Ongoing Visiting Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. His books include Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought (Routledge, 2000) and the co-edited, with Jane Anna Gordon, Not Only the Master’s Tools: African-American Studies in Theory and Practice (Paradigm Publishers, 2005).

Introduction; Chapter 1 Decadent Knowing and Learning; Chapter 2 God Beneath; Chapter 3 Obligations across Generations; Chapter 4 Inventing Africa; Chapter 5 Decadent Development; Chapter 6 Prospero's Words, Caliban's Reason;

Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 362 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-59451-255-8 / 1594512558
ISBN-13 978-1-59451-255-1 / 9781594512551
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