Professional Philosophy and Its Myths (eBook)

David M. Pena-Guzman, Rebekah Spera (Autoren)

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2024
156 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-3972-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In Professional Philosophy and Its Myths, Rebekah Spera and David M. Pena-Guzman argue that academic philosophy is steeped in a host of myths that keep professional philosophers in a state of self-ignorance. Understood as unconscious schemas that shape philosophers' collective imaginary, these myths perform a dangerous ideological function within the discipline. Not only do they contribute to the overwhelming demographic homogeneity of the profession-ensuring that philosophy remains a holdout of white and male dominance-but they also prevent philosophers from seeing themselves as workers who, like all workers who sell their labor for a wage under capital, are subject to alienation, exploitation, and oppression. After outlining and critiquing these myths, Spera and Pena-Guzman call upon philosophers to collectively invent new myths that will enrich rather than impoverish their psychic and professional lives. Through these new myths, they argue, a new philosophy-a "e;philosophy of the future"e;-will be born.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• ISBN-10: 1-6669-3972-2 / 1666939722
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6669-3972-9 / 9781666939729