Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781594512568)

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.

Author: Lewis R. Gordon
ISBN-10: 1594512566
ISBN-13: 9781594512568
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2007
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.93h x 6.36w x 0.48d