https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2010/03/24/a-sense-of-precarity/ critical anthropology of academic culture Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:46:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.1 https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2010/03/24/a-sense-of-precarity/#comment-1224 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:46:59 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1273#comment-1224 Are you sure you don’t just have a positive philosophy of uncertainty, of skepticism? No but seriously… I think one of the things to learn from Otto’s little article is that teachers had a somewhat different view of their role and of what education was about than today. Well, some of them did, at least.

]]> https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2010/03/24/a-sense-of-precarity/#comment-1223 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:20:05 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1273#comment-1223 I would like to offer “a positive philosophy of life with which to face the world.” The only problem is that I’m not sure I have one any more. It seems to me most people are too certain they have truth in hand. Perhaps the best thing an education could do is to leave students less certain about the world and their purpose.

]]> https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2010/03/24/a-sense-of-precarity/#comment-1222 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:27:04 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=1273#comment-1222 Otto, incidentally, turns out to have been a fairly successful American philosopher of the first half of the 20th century, publishing in journals in several disciplines and seemingly being quite close to the pragmatists like Dewey. He quite often waxes poetic and seems to be someone deserving of further study and re-reading.

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