Chapter 1 Introduction: Philosophy and the Situated Narrative Self Chapter 2 Regarding Oneself and Seeing Double: Fragments of Autobiography Chapter 3 Philosophy as Work and Politics Chapter 4 Between the Lines of Age Chapter 5 Incongruities Chapter 6 From Amateur to Professional: Constructing a Life in Philosophy Chapter 7 In-Between Love and Wisdom Chapter 8 Between Facticity and Possibility Chapter 9 Red Shift: Politically Embodied/Embodied Politics Chapter 10 Of Philosophy and Guerilla Wars Chapter 11 Philosophy Recovered as Self-Discovery Chapter 12 In Retrospect Chapter 13 At the Intersection of Several Possible Worlds Chapter 14 The Personal Value and Social Usefulness of Philosophy Chapter 15 Fantastic Notions Chapter 16 An Apprentice's Anecdotal Field Notes Chapter 17 Philosophical Adventures
George Yancy is McAnulty Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University. He has published a variety of scholarly articles and reviews. His first two books are African-American Philosophers, 17 Conversations (1998), which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 1999, and Cornel West: A Critical Reader (2001). He is editing a forthcoming book in which African-American philosophers critically reveal whiteness in terms of its political, normative, socio-cultural, and existential manifestations.
George Yancy's The Philosophical I humanizes philosophy in the
sense of giving philosophy a 'voice.' In giving philosophy a
narrative voice, Yancy's text focuses on the flesh and blood human
beings who breathe life into philosophy as they heroically confront
the social, political, cultural, and other factors that shape the
drama of life.
*Clevis Headley, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Florida
Atlantic University*
Even among academics, philosophers are an odd bunch; and it's no
wonder that most people cannot imagine what it is we do or why we
do it. The candor and wit of these essays and the vivid presence of
their authors on the page hold and reward the attention of those
who are among that odd bunch, while also reaching out to others,
who - but for having this book placed in their hands—might never
have imagined such a fate for themselves.
*Naomi Scheman, professor of philosophy and women's studies,
University of Minnesota*
A fascinating collection of autobiographies by important
philosophers in the United States and Canadian academy. Yancy has
brought together philosophers of different races, sexes,
temperaments, nationalities, and various career stages to discuss
those experiences that have shaped them and their life in
philosophy. While many of the contributors do share a penchant for
pragmatism, even this similarity takes on an idiosyncratic form for
each philosopher. What emerges in this work, then, is a subtle
tapestry of multiple philosophical voices: Each philosopher tells
his or her own biographical story, and through the combination of
these stories we attain a unique perspective on the changing
landscape of United States and Canadian academic philosophy of the
last 50 years.
*APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience*
These essays by professional philosophers can serve as a roadmap
for students looking for guidance either in their search for a
career in philosophy or in areas of future study. The book can also
speak to educated general readers who are interested in
philosophical issues but do not know how to put them into a context
of their own lived experience. Rare is the book tha can speak to
such a broad audience. This one can. Recommended.
*CHOICE*
The various authors supply vivid and often very moving accounts of
the vexed question of affirmative action in universities, of
struggles over sexism and racism.... Some of the details of these
lives in philosophy are at once amusing, terribly moving and human,
all too human. The variety of positions held by the contributors is
remarkable, ranging as they do from feminist epistemology and
'standpoint epistemology' to philosophies of race and ethnicity,
ethics, philosophy of religion, and pragmatism.
*Radical Philosophy*
This is a welcome addition to the too-rare genre of contemporary
philosophical autobiography. Including a healthy contingent of
women and feminists, it is a blessedly varied collection of
reminiscences, from young warriors in the profession to elder
statesmen.
*Robert C. Solomon, Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and
Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University
of Texas, Aust*
In various less spectacular ways than documented by tales of the
arrogance and oafishness woman philosophers face, these essays
drive home the impact of the autobiographical on the philosophical.
When philosophers share the details of their lives, the impact
extends to the reader.
*The Chronicle of Higher Education*
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