Political Vocation of Philosophy Di Cesare Donatella
Political Vocation of Philosophy Di Cesare Donatella It is time for philosophy to return to the city. Philosophy runs the risk of becoming the handmaiden of science and of a hollowed-out democracy.…
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Political Vocation of Philosophy Di Cesare Donatella
It is time for philosophy to return to the city. Philosophy runs the risk of becoming the handmaiden of science and of a hollowed-out democracy. In today's crisis-ridden world of globalised capitalism, increasingly closed in on itself, it may seem harder than ever to think of ways out.
But critique and dissent are no longer enough. Donatella Di Cesare calls on philosophy instead to return to the political fray and to the city, the global polis, from which it was banished after the death of Socrates.Suggesting a radical existentialism and a new anarchism, Di Cesare shows that Western philosophy has been characterised by a political vocation ever since its origins in Ancient Greece, and argues that the separation of philosophy from its political roots robs it of its most valuable and enlightening potential. Mindful of a defeated exile and an inner emigration, philosophers
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