Fashionable Nihilism

Fashionable NihilismOne of America's foremost philosophers reflects on the discipline and its relation to everyday life. Thoreau wrote that we have professors of philosophy but no philosophers. Can't we have both? Why doesn't philosophy hold a more central place in our lives? Why should it? Eloquently opposing the analytic thrust of philosophy in academia, noted pluralist philosopher Bruce Wilshire answers these questions and more in an effort to make philosophy more

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