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Doing Philosophy with Others

Doing Philosophy with Others

Conversations, Reminiscences, and Reflections

by Calvin O. Schrag
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/03/2010

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This book portrays philosophy as a communicative endeavour energised by dialogical transactions in which the involved parties strive for an understanding of the meaning of their corporate existence. As suggested by the book's title, conversation, reminiscence, and reflection are entwined activities and processes. Reminiscence and reflection are understood as parts of dialogic encounters that stimulate the embodied conversational economy. Concrete illustrations of these encounters are provided in the conversations of the author with leading philosophers of the twentieth century. These varied conversations, some going back over fifty years, take the form of interviews, joint presentations, epistolary transactions, and casual exchanges of ideas. The postscript addresses issues pertaining to the role of narrative in everyday engagements, the struggle for multicultural understanding, the challenges of conversing across the disciplines in the present-day university, communication as constitutive of knowledge and self-identity, and the requirement for a transvaluation of the political.
ISBN:
9781557535535
9781557535535
Category:
Philosophy
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-03-2010
Publisher:
Purdue University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
99
Dimensions (mm):
228x152x8mm
Weight:
0.19kg

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