Philosophy at the Crossroads of the Arts and Sciences
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 269
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Designed for online and self-paced learning, this interdisciplinary e-book highlights dialectical inquiry, contemporized methods of mnemonics for analysis, notable cross-cultural intersections, and original philosophic-poetic interludes to connect theory with lived experience and crises. Ideal for both digital and in-person classrooms, it supports critical thinking and interdisciplinary dialogue across the humanities, arts, sciences, and technology.
Philosophy at the Crossroads of the Arts and Sciences, 2nd Edition (2026), is a digital interpretive guide to selective past and present philosophies—Presocratic, Classical, Modern, Postmodern, and Contemporary, and from certain Western cultures and perspectives, Anglo-American and European, including feminists, globalists, and their critics. Attuned for the digital global age, chapters examine perennial themes and complications of love, wisdom, political government, war and peace, the ‘good life,’ truth, justice, freedom, and hope.
In its 2nd Edition 2026 (and Revised 1st Edition 2025), Lenzi continues to delete and add, revise, and track topical philosophical issues and their repercussions from her e-book’s inception in July 2022, to the present, January 2026.
Preface
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER 1 Wonder Why Philosophy Is at the Crossroads of the Arts and Sciences
INTERLUDE
Part 1 Self-Reflection Survey
Part 2 Philosophic-Poetic Dialectic
CHAPTER 2 Canonical Philosophers in Classical and Modernist Eras
CHAPTER 3 Postmodernist and Contemporary Philosophies
Part 1 Deconstruction, Construction, and Creative Productivity
Part 2 Philosophy’s Progress in Technological Times
CHAPTER 4 The Exchange of Opposites in Parts and Whole
Part 1 Peace and War; Life and Death
Part 2 Justice and Injustice; Happiness and Suffering
CHAPTER 5 Classical Philosophy of Plato on Love and Wisdom
Part 1 Interrelational Types of Love
Part 2 Separating & Connecting Love Circles
CHAPTER 6 Classical and Liberalist Philosophies of the Good Life
Part 1 The Good Life: A Good Happiness or Just Happiness
Part 2 Options for the Good Life
Part 3 More Tuning and Tensions for Points A. and B
CHAPTER 7 Truth, Freedom, and Hope
Part 1 Truth
Part 2 Freedom
Part 3 Hope
EPILOGUE
My academic and professional training is in the history of philosophy (The University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D.; Bryn Mawr College, B.A,), with a doctoral thesis on Plato, and undergraduate Honors thesis on Immanuel Kant. I have enjoyed a faculty position in Philosophy-Humanities at UW-Platteville since 2001, and previously as an Adjunct at UT-Knoxville. These academic positions entail teaching a wide range of philosophy courses and adapting my knowledge and application of interdisciplinary philosophy to align with changing times, conditions, and student needs. Interdisciplinary philosophy serves to integrate liberal arts, sciences, and technologies. My publications and professional activities explore intersections and crossroads of philosophy with perennial and contemporary issues in politics, law, economics, psychology, and feminism through a cultural, literary lens. Writing and refining poetry enhances my philosophical pursuits and aims to present philosophy to college students in unique ways.