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July 2, 2019
Just in Time: Moments in Teaching Philosophy A Festschrift Celebrating the Teaching of James Conlon
- Author
- Hockenbery Dragseth, Jennifer, ed.
- Publisher
- Wipf and Stock Publishers
- ISBN
- 9781532654718
- Table of Contents
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Contributors
Foreword (Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth0
Preface (Celcy Powers-King)
Section I. Passionate Moments: Teaching about Desire
An Aesthetic Reading of Sexual Sounds (James Conlon)
Pornophony (Maggie Ann Labinski)
Section II. Transformative Moments: Teaching Philosophy's Relevance
Stanley Cavell and the Predicament of Philosophy (James Conlon)
Worlds Worth Wanting (Anne M. Maloney)
Section III. Effable Moments: Teaching the Power of Writing
Against Ineffability (James Conlon)
Defining the Terms of Surrender (Austin M. Reece)
Section IV. Pragmatic Moments: Just Teaching in America
Cornel West's Socratic Understanding of America (James Conlon)
Doing Just Philosophy (Marsha Thrall)
Section V. Temporal Moments: Teaching in Time
Before Sunset and the Truth of Time (James Conlon)
Just in Time (Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth)
Contributors
This book is a collection of serious philosophical essays that aim to awaken readers, teachers, and students to a desire for conversation passionately pursued. The essays in this volume speak about sex, movies, poetry, and politics, in short, about those things contemporary Americans passionately discuss. These are the subjects that were taught for forty-three years in James Conlon’s classroom at Mount Mary University, a Catholic urban university for women in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This volume celebrates Conlon’s work while calling to all who continue to teach and learn about philosophy in contemporary times with the message that relevant philosophy deals with life as it is lived in the moment. (From the Publisher)