Practical Judgments : : Essays in Culture, Politics, and Interpretation / / Mark Kingwell.
What does it mean to be both a professor of philosophy and a public intellectual in an age when every CEO is hailed as an intellectual, every adman a visionary? When the opinions of TV pundits and 'fast thinkers' seem to carry the day? When academics bemoan the loss of critical engagement...
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Representations of the Intellectual in Everyday Life
- PART I. FOUNDATIONS
- The Plain Truth about Common Sense: Scepticism, Metaphysics, and Irony
- Husserl's Sense of Wonder
- Phronesis and Political Dialogue
- Keeping a Straight Bat: Cricket, Civility, and Post- Colonialism
- PART II: REACTIONS
- Two Concepts of Pluralism
- Critical Theory and Its Discontents
- Nietzsche's Styles
- Viral Culture
- Interior Decoration
- PART III: INTERVENTIONS
- Tables, Chairs, and Other Machines for Thinking
- Being Dandy: A Sort of Manifesto
- Storage and Retrieval
- Fear and Self-Loathing in Couchland: Eight Myths about Television
- What Does It All Mean?
- Index