> I wonder if this newfangled "philosophical therapy" is being
> marketed out of a desire to find "alternative careers" for
> philosophy teachers & students. In English, for the last
> several years, management & the MLA have been offering
> workshops, etc., often inviting "successful people" who
> turned their Ph.Ds into "career assets" outside English
> Departments as speakers: editors, courseware developers,
> educational administrators, copywriters, screenplay writers,
> etc. Can "poetic therapy" & "literary therapy" be far
> behind?
Yeah, and there's that weird Merril-Lynch 'young scholar' or 'best dissertation' or-something-like-that program they are doing for the humanities. Trying to make them 'relevant' to business or some crap like that.
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Joseph Noonan Houston, TX jfn1 at msc.com