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Joseph P. Fell proposes that the solution to the problem of
nihilism is found in the common experience of persons and the
everyday commitments that one makes to people, practices, and
institutions. In his landmark 1979 book Heidegger and Sartre, and
in his subsequent essays, Fell describes a quiet but radical reform
in the philosophical tradition that speaks to perennial dilemmas of
thought and pressing issues for action. Since Descartes, at least,
we have been puzzled as to what we can know, how we should act, and
what we should value. The skeptical influence of modern
dualism-distilled in the mind-body problem at arose with the
assertion "I think, therefore I am"-has shot through not just
philosophy and psychology, but also society, politics, and culture.
With dualism arose radical subjectivism and the concomitant
problems of nihilism and alienation. The broad aim of phenomenology
is to repair the rupture of self and world. Announced by Edmund
Husserl and developed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, and
John William Miller, who drew from the North American tradition,
this is the project to which Fell has devoted more than a half
century of reflection and technical elaboration. In this volume, an
array of scholars consider, criticize, and cultivate Fell's key
contributions to the phenomenological project. Ranging from
analyses of key texts in Fell's phenomenology to probing
examinations of his crucial philosophical presuppositions to the
prospects for Fell's call to find the solution to nihilism in
everyday experience-these essays gather the work of the authors
thinking with and through Fell's key works on Sartre, Heidegger,
and Miller. Also included are seminal statements from Fell on his
pedagogical practice and his conception of philosophy.
Long seen as proving grounds for professors, PhD programs have
begun to shed this singular sense of mission. Prompted by poor
placement numbers and guided by the efforts of academic
organizations, administrators and faculty are beginning to
feel called to equip students for a range of careers.
Yet, graduate students, faculty, and administrators
often feel ill-prepared for this pivot. The Reimagined
PhDÂ assembles an array of professionals to address this
difficult issue. The contributors show that students, faculty, and
administrators must collaborate in order to prepare the
21st century PhD for a wide range of careers. The volume also
undercuts the insidious notion that career preparation is a zero
sum game in which time spent preparing for alternate careers
detracts from professorial training. In doing so, The
Reimagined PhDÂ normalizes the multiple career paths open to
PhD students, while providing practical advice geared to help
students, faculty, and administrators
incorporate professional skills into graduate training,
build career networks, and prepare PhDs for a variety
of careers. Â
The ancient antagonism between the active and the contemplative
lives is taken up in this innovative and wide-ranging examination
of John William Miller's effort of forge a metaphysics of
democracy. The Active Life sheds new light on Miller's actualist
philosophy--its scope, its systematic character, and its
dialectical form. Michael J. McGandy persuasively sets Miller's
actualism in the context of Hannah Arendt's understanding of the
active life and skillfully presents actualism as a response to
Whitman's challenge to craft a democratic form of metaphysics.
McGandy concludes that Miller reveals how the philosophical and the
political are inextricably connected, how there is no active life
without the contemplative life, and that the contemplative life is
founded in the active life.
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