What is it about?
Philosophy is often understood to be divorced from issues of contemporary public concern. This article argues that philosophy has always been an important way of being engaged with the public and that philosophical discourse is a powerful way to form engaged publics.
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Why is it important?
The absence of academia in general and philosophy in particular from the conversations that shape public debate and inform public opinion has impoverished civic discourse. By arguing for a more publicly engaged philosophy and tying it to a longer tradition of philosophical practice, this essay attempts to encourage more public scholarship as a way to enrich public policy and dialogue.
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This essay is part of a larger effort to make humanities scholarship more publicly accessible so that it might more effectively orient public communities to questions of justice. In my work as Dean of the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University, I am developing initiatives that will make humanities scholarship more accessible and responsive to contemporary issues of public concern.
Dr Christopher P Long
Michigan State University
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This page is a summary of: Public Philosophy and Philosophical Publics: Performative Publishing and the Cultivation of Community, The Good Society, January 2016, The Pennsylvania State University Press,
DOI: 10.5325/goodsociety.24.2.0118.
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