Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto

by Bryan W. Van Norden

Book Overview

Are American colleges and universities failing their students by refusing to teach the philosophical traditions of China, India, Africa, and other non-Western cultures? This biting and provocative critique of American higher education says yes. Even though we live in an increasingly multicultural world, most philosophy departments stubbornly insist that only Western philosophy is real philosophy and denigrate everything outside the European canon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231184360
• ISBN13: 9780231184366
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"