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The problem with philosophy is the ease with which it devolves into abstraction. Looking into a philosophy book replete with arcane words such as “epistemology” and “dialethicism,” and with the author holding forth on esoteric matters that apparently live only in the mind, the uninformed or rather uninitiated reader can be forgiven for assuming that philosophers are the very definition of “ivory tower” academics, utterly dissociated from real life and elitists in the worst sense of that much-maligned word. How can one answer the question “What’s the point of philosophy” when there are so few examples of how philosophy can be applied to today’s everyday life?
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Bailey, J. (2014). When Apollo and Dionysus Clash: A Nietzschean Perspective on the Work of Kanye West. In: Bailey, J. (eds) The Cultural Impact of Kanye West. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137395825_10
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