When Did Philosophy Get So Boring?

How stories got whitewashed out of philosophy

The trickster Coyote, a great philosophical teacher

As I wrote last time, we’ve got names all wrong. As Bryan Van Nordern has a book about, Anglo-European philosophy has devoured the entire term, to the exclusion of the world. And as the academy insists, poetry is in dusty white tomes in libraries and certainly not the strip clubs of Atlanta and clubs of Lagos, where in fact it…