European and non-European Philosophers as public intellectuals

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  1. February 23, 2013

    […] Writing in the Independent, atheist humanist Tony Grayling critiques the capacity of faith schools to develop a pedagogy that teaches a child “how to think, not what to think”. Has Tony been near a school in England recently? Oh yes! He’s a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. And do you think Tony would occupy such an elevated position if he were a black revolutionary communist sufi? As Chomsky points out, the system is effective at weeding out those people who don’t conform to establishment expectations and refuse to play by the rules, long before they achieve any position of influence. Tony looks, thinks, and smells like a good English academic ought to. He isn’t Slavoj Zizek. […]

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