Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times
In this book, philosopher and social critic Lewis Gordon explores the ossification of disciplines, which he calls disciplinary decadence. In response, he offers a theory of what he calls a teleological suspension of disciplinarity, in which he encourages scholars and lay intellectuals to pay attention to the openness of ideas and purposes on which their disciplines were born. Gordon builds his case through discussions of philosophy of education, problems of secularization in religious thought, obligations across generations, notions of invention in the study of ideas, decadence in development, colonial epistemologies, and the quest for a genuine postcolonial language. These topics are examined with the underlying diagnosis of the present political and academic environment as one in which it is indecent to think.
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Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times
In this book, philosopher and social critic Lewis Gordon explores the ossification of disciplines, which he calls disciplinary decadence. In response, he offers a theory of what he calls a teleological suspension of disciplinarity, in which he encourages scholars and lay intellectuals to pay attention to the openness of ideas and purposes on which their disciplines were born. Gordon builds his case through discussions of philosophy of education, problems of secularization in religious thought, obligations across generations, notions of invention in the study of ideas, decadence in development, colonial epistemologies, and the quest for a genuine postcolonial language. These topics are examined with the underlying diagnosis of the present political and academic environment as one in which it is indecent to think.
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Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times

Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times

by Lewis R. Gordon
Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times

Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times

by Lewis R. Gordon

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In this book, philosopher and social critic Lewis Gordon explores the ossification of disciplines, which he calls disciplinary decadence. In response, he offers a theory of what he calls a teleological suspension of disciplinarity, in which he encourages scholars and lay intellectuals to pay attention to the openness of ideas and purposes on which their disciplines were born. Gordon builds his case through discussions of philosophy of education, problems of secularization in religious thought, obligations across generations, notions of invention in the study of ideas, decadence in development, colonial epistemologies, and the quest for a genuine postcolonial language. These topics are examined with the underlying diagnosis of the present political and academic environment as one in which it is indecent to think.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781594512568
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/15/2007
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 184
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lewis R. Gordon is Professor of Philosophy, Africana Studies, and Judaic Studies at UConn and Europhilosophy Visiting Chair, Toulouse University, France. He will be the Nelson Mandela Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rhodes University in South Africa for 2014-2016. His publications include Her Majesty's Other Children (Rowman and Littlefield, 1997) which won the Gustavus Myer's Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Decadent Knowing and Learning; Chapter 2 God Beneath; Chapter 3 Obligations across Generations; Chapter 4 Inventing Africa; Chapter 5 Decadent Development; Chapter 6 Prospero's Words, Caliban's Reason;
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