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Social Thought From the Ruins : Quixote's Dinner Party / David A. Westbrook.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Westbrook, David A., author.
- Series:
- New order of social things
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intellectuals--United States--Social conditions.
- Intellectuals.
- Universities and colleges--United States--Sociological aspects.
- Universities and colleges.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Through stories, conversations, and essays, this book pursues interwoven critical and philosophical inquiries into the nature of the contemporary in the North Atlantic, asking how are we to live as intellectuals, individually and in community?"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Beginning. An invitation to a dinner party
- Ruins
- Our times are strange
- Making the contemporary legible
- Hope(less)
- Notes from underground
- Curiosity outside and inside the university
- The (in)tractable future
- Power I : a critique of received narratives
- Power II : model wars
- Data and conversation
- Why do you want to talk to us?
- Reflection
- Translation
- Legitimation
- Education
- Old stones
- Teaching
- Getting there
- To "theory" and back
- A seat at the table
- Caritas in the People's University
- Humanizing bureaucracy
- Café intellectuals
- Philosophy in the marketplace
- Ending. Books of dreams.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-04-042896-7
- 1-003-60966-X
- 9781003609667
- OCLC:
- 1535749141
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