Joseph M. Keegin

Oct 1, 2024 | chronicle.com | Joseph M. Keegin

In 2012, at the age of 25, I quit my part-time jobs cooking and cleaning houses and, having dropped out during my first semester seven years earlier, went back to school. To help pay for the modest tuition at Indiana University Southeast, in New Albany, Ind., I took a work-study gig at the university library. The campus of IUS is small, and most students are commuters; the library was accordingly quiet, the work languid. So in the many slow periods between tasks, I read.

Sep 29, 2024 | thepointmag.com | Joseph M. Keegin

In 2012, at the age of 25, I quit my part-time jobs cooking and cleaning houses and, having dropped out during my first semester seven years earlier, went back to school. To help pay for the modest tuition at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana, I took a work-study gig at the university library. The campus of IUS is small, and most students are commuters; the library was accordingly quiet, the work languid. So in the many slow periods between tasks, I read.

Sep 10, 2024 | aeon.co | Joseph M. Keegin

‘As they say that Helen of Argos had that universal beauty that every body felt related to her, so Plato seems to a reader in New England an American genius. His broad humanity transcends all sectional lines.’– from ‘Plato; or, the Philosopher’; Representative Men (1850) by Ralph Waldo Emerson‘Only Hegel is fit for America – is large enough and free enough.’– from an unpublished lecture on German philosophy; Notebooks by Walt Whitman (1819-92)What is the future of philosophy in the United States?

Sep 10, 2024 | qoshe.com | Joseph M. Keegin

What is the future of philosophy in the United States? This question weighs heavily on teachers and scholars as philosophy departments around the country – at schools rich and poor, large and small – blink out of existence. Some are eliminated as part of an institution-wide downsizing effort, as operating budgets and endowments contract; others are simply pillaged for resources to give to other programs that more readily display the one virtue recognised by administrators: ‘impact’.

May 22, 2024 | thepointmag.com | Joseph M. Keegin

Indifference and Intensity | | Despite drawing much of its student body from northeastern and West Coast megalopolises and being located in the heart of the most cosmopolitan city in the South, Tulane—where I am a Ph.D. student in philosophy—is a strangely provincial campus: national trends, if they ever catch on here, do so rather late in the game, and few that do have anything to do with politics.