Academic Writing, Philosophy and Genre, Paperback / softback Book

Academic Writing, Philosophy and Genre Paperback / softback

Edited by Michael A. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Peters

Part of the Educational Philosophy and Theory Special Issues series

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This book investigates how philosophical texts display a variety of literary forms and explores philosophical writing and the relation of philosophy to literature and reading. Discusses the many different philosophical genres that have developed, among them letters, the treatise, the confession, the meditation, the allegory, the essay, the soliloquy, the symposium, the consolation, the commentary, the disputation, and the dialogueShows how these forms of philosophy have conditioned and become the basis of academic writing (and assessment) within both the university and higher education more generallyExplores questions of philosophical writing and the relation of philosophy to literature and reading

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