Academic Writing, Philosophy and Genre

Notes on Contributors vii

Introduction - Thinking in Fragments; Thinking in Systems ix
Michael A. Peters

1 Academic Writing, Genres and Philosophy 1
Michael A. Peters

2 Philosophical Writing: Prefacing as professing 14
Rob McCormack

3 Ong and Derrida on Presence: A case study in the conflict of traditions 38
John D. Schaeffer & David Gorman

4 Bridging Literary and Philosophical Genres: Judgement, reflection and education in Camus’ The Fall 55
Peter Roberts

5 Reading the Other: Ethics of encounter 70
Sarah Allen

6 The Art of Language Teaching as Interdisciplinary Paradigm 81
Thomas Erling Peterson

7 Philosophy as Literature 100
Jim Marshall

Index 111