Elective Mind - Philosophy and the Undergraduate Degree

What is the significance of "higher" education? What is the point of obtaining a degree that includes the study of philosophy? This book argues that university study is a privileged space for self-cultivation but that this space is under threat by both the press of specialization and the "marketing" of undergraduate education.

About the author

Réal Fillion has taught philosophy for almost 30 years and is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sudbury, part of the Laurentian University Federation. He is the author of Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History: Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx and Foucault and the Indefinite Work of Freedom, both also published by the University of Ottawa Press.

Summary

What is the significance of “higher” education? What is the point of obtaining a degree that includes the study of philosophy? This book argues that university study is a privileged space for self-cultivation but that this space is under threat by both the press of specialization and the “marketing” of undergraduate education.

Product details

• Authors: Real Fillion, Réal Fillion, Real (Full Professor - Department of Phil Fillion, Real (Full Professor - Department of Philosophy Fillion
• Publisher: University Of Ottawa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9780776629551
• ISBN: 978-0-7766-2955-1
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Philosophica
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries