Academic Writing, Philosophy and Genre

ISBN-13: 9781405194006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 128 str.

Opis

This book investigates how philosophical texts display a variety of literary forms and explores philosophical writing and the relation of philosophy to literature and reading.

• Discusses the many different philosophical genres that have developed, among them letters, the treatise, the confession, the meditation, the allegory, the essay, the soliloquy, the symposium, the consolation, the commentary, the disputation, and the dialogue
• Shows how these forms of philosophy have conditioned and become the basis of academic writing (and assessment) within both the university and higher education more generally
• Explores questions of philosophical writing and the relation of philosophy to literature and reading

Recenzje

"The book is certainly accessible to those interested in philosophi­cal writing." ( Discourse Studies, December 2010)

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors vii

Introduction – Thinking in Fragments; Thinking in Systems ix
Michael A. Peters

1 Academic Writing, Genres and Philosophy 1
Michael A. Peters

2 Philosophical Writing: Prefacing as professing 14
Rob McCormack

3 Ong and Derrida on Presence: A case study in the conflict of traditions 38
John D. Schaeffer & David Gorman

4 Bridging Literary and Philosophical Genres: Judgement, reflection and education in Camus The Fall 55
Peter Roberts

5 Reading the Other: Ethics of encounter 70
Sarah Allen

6 The Art of Language Teaching as Interdisciplinary Paradigm 81
Thomas Erling Peterson

7 Philosophy as Literature 100
Jim Marshall

Index 111

O autorze

Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He has degrees in geography, philosophy and education. He previously held a chair as research professor and professor of education at the University of Glasgow (2000–2005) as well as a personal chair at the University of Auckland, and was adjunct professor of communication studies at the Auckland University of Technology. He is the editor of three international journals: Educational Philosophy and Theory; Policy Futures in Education; and E–Learning. He is also the author or editor of over forty books, including most recently Global Knowledge Cultures (2007), Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of Higher Education (2007), Building Knowledge Cultures: Education in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism (2006), and Deconstructing Derrida: Tasks for the New Humanities (2005). His research interests include educational philosophy, education and public policy, social and political theory.

Blurb

Philosophical texts display a variety of literary forms. There are many different philosophical genres that have developed over the years which are peculiar to and transcend their age: letters, the treatise, the thesis, the confession, the meditation, the allegory, the essay, the soliloquy, the symposium, the consolation, the commentary, the disputation, and the dialogue, to name a few. These forms of philosophy have conditioned and become the basis of academic writing (and assessment) within both the university and higher education more generally. Since the cultural, linguistic (discursive), and practice turns of the 1970s and in subsequent decades greater attention has been paid to the relations between academic writing, genres and philosophy, and also to questions of style, genre, form and their historicity and materiality. These essays explore these themes in relation to questions of philosophical writing, the relation of philosophy to literature, and reading the other.