Tag: Career

• October 25, 2011

  On living out indirect proofs: Not the vocation, the career, or the project but the life-work

  1. We might say that life is one long indirect proof. We have to live a conception out before we can rule it out. In ruling it out, we come upon a more hopeful conception of a well-lived life. 2. Throughout the history of western civilization, we have lived out a number of conceptions of…
• September 27, 2011

  The end of the career: A long view

  Abstract I argue that we may be witnessing not the stopping and stalling of some careers but the more far-reaching conclusion that the very idea of a career may be coming to an end. In what follows, I tease out the social implications of the end of the career and then provide some prima facie evidence in support of this…