Academic Writing, Philosophy and Genre

Michael A. Peters is Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has degrees in geography, philosophy and education. He previously held a chair as research professor and professor of education at the University of Glasgow (2000-2005) as well as a personal chair at the University of Auckland, and was adjunct professor of communication studies at the Auckland University of Technology. He is the editor of three international journals: Educational Philosophy and Theory; Policy Futures in Education; and E-Learning. He is also the author or editor of over forty books, including most recently Global Knowledge Cultures (2007), Knowledge Economy, Development and the Future of Higher Education (2007), Building Knowledge Cultures: Education in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism (2006), and Deconstructing Derrida: Tasks for the New Humanities (2005). His research interests include educational philosophy, education and public policy, social and political theory.

• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction - Thinking in Fragments; Thinking in Systems ixMichael A. Peters1 Academic Writing, Genres and Philosophy 1Michael A. Peters2 Philosophical Writing: Prefacing as professing 14Rob McCormack3 Ong and Derrida on Presence: A case study in the conflict of traditions 38John D. Schaeffer & David Gorman4 Bridging Literary and Philosophical Genres: Judgement, reflection and education in Camus’ The Fall 55Peter Roberts5 Reading the Other: Ethics of encounter 70Sarah Allen6 The Art of Language Teaching as Interdisciplinary Paradigm 81Thomas Erling Peterson7 Philosophy as Literature 100Jim MarshallIndex 111

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