Fear, Truth, Writing: From Paper Village to Electronic Community

by Alison Leigh Brown

Alison Leigh Brown is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northern Arizona State University. She is currently at work on a book about deception.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791425320
• ISBN13: 9780791425329
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Punk Philosophy

This is a wonderful,unique,fun book!It is that odd thing,an intellectual crossover.The publishers ,and probably the author,imagine that its primary readership will be those academics and others who are "into" postmodernism andphilosophy.But,gentle reader,it is a book for anyone who has ever tried to connect theory and practise.Instead of treating philosophy as something to be reverential about,Alison Leigh Brown takes it out into the real world,dancing.This is taking philosophy out into the "messy real world".Can it stand the pace?What is philosophy like when it wakes up bruised and hungover?Its beautifully written,and plays all kinds of nice games around subverting the academic genre.The footnotes start off as you would expect,but quite quickly begin to "take over" - to the point where I was reading the story in the "footnotes" and ,sometimes reluctantly,dipping back to the main(?) text.For one of the issues of the book is to seriously dispute the primacy between text and footnote;and thus between philosophy and the teeming ,messy,joyous world. This is intelligent literature based around a specialist academic insight into philosophy,by someone who is constantly engaging with the world of the 90s.Its funn - and I'd recommend it to anyone who doesn't take the world at face value.