%0 Journal Article
%T The Trial of Socrates That Never Ends: An Introduction to the Socrates Tenured Symposium
%A Steve Fuller
%J Philosophy of the Social Sciences
%@ 1552-7441
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0048393117740824
%X This introduction to the Socrates Tenured symposium reflects on the history of philosophy¡¯s institutionalization as a specialized academic discipline, noting its relative recency in the English-speaking world. Despite occasionally paying lip service to its German idealist origins, philosophy in the United States is best understood as an extension of the Neo-Kantian world-view which came to dominate German academic life after Hegel¡¯s death. Socrates Tenured aims to buck this trend toward philosophy¡¯s academic specialization by a strategy that bears interesting comparison with the anti-professionalism of Robert Maynard Hutchins at the University of Chicago
%K German idealism
%K Kant
%K philosophy
%K professionalization
%K university
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0048393117740824