Mehdi Belhaj Kacem
MEHDI BELHAJ KACEM is a philosopher and writer. He is the author of a dozen books, including, in English, Transgression and the Inexistent: A Philosophical Vocabulary (Bloomsbury, 2014).
The Academy in Peril
By Mehdi Belhaj KacemI undertake my philosophical endeavors outside the university. As everyone knows, philosophy has for two centuries been the university’s private game preserve, and that, except for a mere dozen names, all philosophers of note have been professors: that is, civil servants. Philosophy since Kant has essentially become philosophical commentary, the philosophy of philosophy.
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