VOLUME 3(6) • 2015
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION: ACADEMIC SELF-KNOWLEDGE AS A CAUSE OF ANXIETY?
If one Googles the phrase ”academic self-knowledge,” one sees tens of thousands of hits referring to various studies in social psychology, such as student identity and its relation to academic competencies, attitudes and perceptions of black American students about themselves and their consequences ..
THE PROBLEM OF SPEAKING FOR OTHERS REDUX: INSISTENCE ON DISCLOSURE AND THE ETHICS OF ENGAGEMENT
ABSTRACT. Virtually any academic text written about disability will inevitably include some kind of statement about the author’s personal relationship to disability. Why? What kind of work do statements like that do? In my recent book, Loneliness and its Opposite: Sex, disability and the ethics of e..
ANXIETIES OF KNOWING: ACADEMIC PATHOLOGIES, CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE CULTURE OF SELF
ABSTRACT. This exploratory paper coins the term “academic pathologies” to discuss in a critical approach the culture of the academic self focusing on what is called “anxieties of knowledge.” The paper plays with these themes in reference to the work of Kierkegaard, the American film director Woody A..
AN EXISTENTIAL ERRAND: SCHOLARSHIP, AUTHORSHIP AND THE CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION
ABSTRACT. Since 1968, at least, academia has been subject to the “crisis of representation.” This essay explores the consequences of the “postmodern condition” for the identity formation of academics. It is informed by Foucault’s and Deleuze’s understanding of the pivotal intellectual developments i..
FICTION AS A SOURCE OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE: COGNITIVE NARRATOLOGY FACES THE DEMANDS OF FRANZ KAFKA
ABSTRACT. One sign of the current crisis in the humanities is the cognitive turn within humanistic disciplines. The study of narrative, traditionally regarded as a branch of literary studies, is a case in point. This paper suggests that, seeking to bridge what they think of as an unfortunate gap bet..
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES: ANOTHER SOMEWHAT LAMENTING – YET BASICALLY HOPEFUL – ACCOUNT
ABSTRACT. In this essay, the author tries to come to grips with what he considers to be a deep institutional and intellectual crisis in practically all higher education systems in Continental Europe, and ventures possible remedies for overcoming present structural and political dysfunctions. He disc..