Rebekah Spera, David M Peña-Guzmán

Professional Philosophy and Its Myths

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Produktbeschreibung

In Professional Philosophy and Its Myths, Rebekah Spera and David M. Peña-Guzmán 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 Peña-Guzmán 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 "philosophy of the future"-will be born.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781666939736
• ISBN-10: 1666939730
• Artikelnr.: 76094598

Autorenporträt

Rebekah Spera is postdoctoral fellow serving in the Writing Program at Emory University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Philosophy's Mythic Order
Chapter 1: The Philosophical Personality
Chapter 2: The Philosopher as One
Chapter 3: The Alienated Philosopher
Chapter 4: The Adjunct
Chapter 5: The Myths of Tomorrow
Appendix: Paths to Philosophy's Future
Bibliography
About the Authors