The Philosophical I

Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy
Herausgeber: Yancy, George

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 151mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780742513419
• ISBN-10: 0742513416
• Artikelnr.: 21562237

Autorenporträt

George Yancy is McAnulty Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University. He has published a variety of scholarly articles and reviews. His first two books are African-American Philosophers, 17 Conversations (1998), which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 1999, and Cornel West: A Critical Reader (2001). He is editing a forthcoming book in which African-American philosophers critically reveal whiteness in terms of its political, normative, socio-cultural, and existential manifestations.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Philosophy and the Situated Narrative Self Chapter
2 Regarding Oneself and Seeing Double: Fragments of Autobiography Chapter 3
Philosophy as Work and Politics Chapter 4 Between the Lines of Age Chapter
5 Incongruities Chapter 6 From Amateur to Professional: Constructing a Life
in Philosophy Chapter 7 In-Between Love and Wisdom Chapter 8 Between
Facticity and Possibility Chapter 9 Red Shift: Politically
Embodied/Embodied Politics Chapter 10 Of Philosophy and Guerilla Wars
Chapter 11 Philosophy Recovered as Self-Discovery Chapter 12 In Retrospect
Chapter 13 At the Intersection of Several Possible Worlds Chapter 14 The
Personal Value and Social Usefulness of Philosophy Chapter 15 Fantastic
Notions Chapter 16 An Apprentice's Anecdotal Field Notes Chapter 17
Philosophical Adventures