Socrates Tenured : The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy Paperback / softback

by Robert Frodeman, Adam Briggle

Part of the Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society series

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Description

Professional philosophy has strayed so far from its roots that Socrates wouldnâ€™t stand a chance of landing tenure in most departments today.

After all, he spent his time talking with people from all walks of life rather than being buried in the secondary literature and polishing arguments for peer-reviewed journals.

Yet somehow this hypertrophy styles itself â€˜realâ€™ philosophy.Â Socrates Tenured diagnoses the pathologies of contemporary philosophy and shows how the field can be revitalized.

The first part of the book sketches the crisis facing philosophy in a neoliberal age and traces its roots back to the 20th-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 â€˜field philosophyâ€™ 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.