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J. Everet Green: MA: Mphil: D.D. Ph.D |
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J. Everet Green has had a long career
in education and taught at every level from elementary
education to the university. He has taught extensively
in different philosophical traditions, Religion and
Culture and the History of Ideas. He is also founder of
the Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference Series and
the series on Philosophy and Religion in Africana
Traditions. He is also Editor of Brill, the
international scholarly publisher Special Series on
African-American and Africana philosophy.
He teaches Philosophy at Mercy
College, New York.
He now organises Annual
PRAT Philosophy and Religion in Africana Traditions
Conference the second of which took place
October, 2015.
email: everet
at verizon.net
Philosophy : The Efficacy and
Sustainability of Revolutionary Struggles: J. Everet
Green
As we begin the new semester of academic work, what
motivates us to choose one academic theme over another
and how do we deal with conflicting motives and divided
loyalties in terms of our own intellectual development,
varied interests of students, responsibility to the
academic institutions, relationship to colleagues,
institutional mission, and ourselves as agents of change
within the wider community?
The university is a market. Goods are being sold
along with professionals selling themselves. In
this market place are competing ideas and even competing
claims that some goods are more valuable than others.
As philosophers, what are we selling and at what price
do we maintain marketability in institutions that have
become more and more corporatized? In this
corporate structure there are planning and development,
short and long term financial forecast, projections
about goods, that is, students and services, faculty and
administrators, public relations, etc. In this
milieu, is the professional philosopher staking out a
claim about truth and reality with political/class
implications which may or may not be subjective and
spontaneous depending on one’s personal history and
motivations?
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