Epistemology, Ethics, and Meaning in Unusually Personal Scholarship / by Amber Esping.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Esping, Amber., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of mind.

Self.

Emotions.

Collective memory.

Philosophy of the Self.

Emotion.

Memory Studies.

Local Subjects:

Philosophy of the Self.

Emotion.

Memory Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed. 2018.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Summary:

This book uses Viktor Frankl's Existential Psychology (logotherapy) to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity. A psychiatrist imprisoned for three years in Nazi concentration camps, Frankl believed the search for meaning is a powerful motivator, and that its discovery can be profoundly therapeutic. Part I begins with four stories of professors finding meaning. Using the case studies as a foundation, Part II investigates issues of epistemology and ethics in unusually personal research from an existential perspective. The book offers advice for graduate students and faculty who want to live and work more meaningfully in the academy.

Contents:

1. Introduction to Mesearch

2. Mesearch in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

3. Mesearch in the Hard Sciences

4. Mesearch in the Arts and Humanities

5. Autoethnography

6. Mesearch in Graduate School

7. Mesearch and Motivation

8. To Disclose or Not?

9. Getting a Job and Getting Tenure

10. Mesearch as Therapeutic Practice

11. Mesearch and Activism

12. The Case for a New Epistemology

13. The Future of Mesearch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9783319737188

331973718X