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The Imbecile's Guide to Public Philosophy (Hardcover)
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The Imbecile's Guide to Public Philosophy (Hardcover)
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This book studies the role of serious philosophizing in everyday
life and looks at how authoritarianism negates philosophical and
public reason. It sheds light on how philosophy can go beyond its
life as a discipline limited to an esoteric group of academia to
manifest itself via radical discursive practices in public life
which enable us to understand and resolve contemporary
socio-political challenges. It studies philosophy as a discipline
which deals with one's orientations based on experience, the logic
of reasoning, critical thinking, and most of all radical and
progressive beliefs. The book argues that the contemporary rise of
capitalism in modern society, resonating Emile Durkheim's cautions
on "anomie", has favoured individualism, differentiation,
marginalization, and exploitation, balanced on an eroding
collective consciousness and a steady disintegration of humanity
and reason. Taking this into consideration, it discusses how
philosophy, both mainstream and marginal, can revive democracy in
society which then is able to confront global authoritarianism led
by the figure of the imbecile. Finally, it also provides a range of
new perspectives on the questions of civic freedom, hegemony of
language, social justice, identity, invisible paradigms, gender
justice, democracy, multiculturalism, and decolonization. This book
is an invigorating compilation of essays from diverse disciplines,
engaging the need to create a humanistic public philosophy to
transcend the state of imbecility. It will be of great interest to
students, scholars and researchers of philosophy, contemporary
politics, history, and sociology, as well as general readers.
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