
A fully equipped gym would be installed so folks can be healthy and fit to counter tendencies towards entropy in the body department.
I am trying to inject a little humour and to offer a potential solution to the issue you raised about academic bookery barely covering costs.Rortabend wrote:Academic publishing doesn't need saving from the capitalist mire. Your suggestion that academic publishers sell their books to libraries is comical. Don't you realise that this is what already happens? When did you last see an academic book in an airport bookshop? Most of our books DO NOT compete in the 'capitalist pig dog market'. Most titles are published based on their scholarly value, not potential revenue.
Also, while I'm here I'd just like to say that I don't really understand why your replies are so sarcastic. Why the little rolling eyes man?
Is a free access library (real or online) a world of un-monitored books compared to a capitalist book shop?amateurphilosophynerd wrote:I would rather access Scholarly works even if they are tough difficult to master and read. I get far more out of these Authors/various Theses in the Capitalist system than a world of un-monitored books.
If you don't have enough sales to cover your publishing costs then you are in trouble as a publisher; academic or otherwise.Scholars such as Rortabend and many hundreds thousands of others, deserve their books and monographs to be published, the secret is knowing which to pounce on. It doesn't have to have many sales as it's the QUALITY that matters.
With the latter I agree.Research into books is what unlocks the potential treasures out there -unfortunately in cyberspace where one can acculmulate massive Wish Lists as I have, and be aware of many books of astoundingly high quality.
Academics, even in this columms can be subject to the lay persons reviews as much as professsionals and maybe be helped by even them.
If you can't explain it to an lay person who would need a philosophy degree to aid mastery, then what chance do you of teaching your students?
Again I agree.There is a COST involved: for me, it means I do without some things to make way for a growing Library. There is a COST in learning to read/master a Text but exposure to philosopher x or philosopher y who completely despises the other is good intellectual exercise. There is nothing like intellectual reading to plonk you right in the middle of the crossfire of various debates on various issues circulating round academe.
The fact that you and many others have to live on a very low fixed income is the VERY REASON why academic books, journals and articles SHOULD be available free at point of access in libraries otherwise what you will find is that only the rich elites have access to important books. I rest MY case.As i live on a very low fixed income I have to buy constantly with an eye to my future: what is FUTURE MAKING. Well proper academic books help!
I rest my case.
I have mentioned two books in this thread; two of which I am currently reading. I am currently reading seven others all of which bar one (The Underground Man- Dosteovsky) are academic titles and all accessed from my local, small but beautiful library.This thread is also about WHAT YOU ARE CURRENTLY READING not book suggestions which can easily be posted in another thread with justification for ie reason y reason x you will get c out of this etc etc.
I don't recall saying this. If I thought philosophy was only for the scholarly and academic and not for the dumb masses, why would I participate in an internet philosophy forum or buy magazines like Philosophy Now? The fact that artisitcsolution and I are working our way through Hubert Dreyfus's existentialism course would also seem to refute your claims of elitism.Philosophy IS ONLY for the scholarly and academic and not for the dumb masses. You say it over and over again in albeit in slightly different ways.
Wasn't it you who said that you hadn't been posting on this site recently because it was becoming gossipy and trite? Wasn't it you who started a thread about 'pop philosophy'? Perhaps you don't realise how haughty and sarcastic you sound. Anyway, why are you participating in a 'dumb' philosophy forum and buying the 'low brow' Philosophy Now?Rortabend wrote:I don't recall saying this. If I thought philosophy was only for the scholarly and academic and not for the dumb masses, why would I participate in an internet philosophy forum or buy magazines like Philosophy Now? The fact that artisitcsolution and I are working our way through Hubert Dreyfus's existentialism course would also seem to refute your claims of elitism.Philosophy IS ONLY for the scholarly and academic and not for the dumb masses. You say it over and over again in albeit in slightly different ways.
As for your claims about injecting humour, I'm not sure your sarcastic remarks achieve this.
I did say that many of the threads on the site are gossipy and trite. I also started a thread on pop philosophy. I don't understand why you are pointing this out. Also, I have never said that the forum is 'dumb' or that Philosophy Now is 'low brow'. These are your words, not mine.Wasn't it you who said that you hadn't been posting on this site recently because it was becoming gossipy and trite? Wasn't it you who started a thread about 'pop philosophy'? Perhaps you don't realise how haughty and sarcastic you sound. Anyway, why are you participating in a 'dumb' philosophy forum and buying the 'low brow' Philosophy Now?
By her own admission, AS is a complete beginner when it comes existentialism. If I thought that philosophy was only for scholarly and academic then why would I be interested in setting up a podcast group?I don't know what the fact that you and artisitcsolution are working your way through Hubert Dreyfus's existentialism course proves? Unless you are saying something rather condescending about artisticsolution.
Yer, I knowBTW as we are on the subject of sarcasm. Is sarcasm not allowed here or is it only I that am not allowed to employ it? Are there certain rules for certain posters that are not applicable to others; because that would smack of hypocrisy wouldn't it? I mean if I were ever to come across a post/s where you had been sarcastic to another poster in order to make a point what would that then say about you?
This is one of my gameplans as well, but finances prohibit it, perhaps i can resubcribe via local newsagent and still get access to Archive.bus2bondi wrote:my favorite read is the PN archivehonestly i think its better than most books