ON CANON IN THE TEACHING OF PHILOSOPHY: A DEFENSE OF CANON IN THE LIGHT OF THE ESSENTIAL MEDIOCRITY OF INSTITUTIONS
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This text ponders the role of canon in the teaching of philosophy, against the background of 1) the criticisms made of it for being politically questionable (e.g., for being sexist or Eurocentric), and 2) the consideration that the canon is an institution, and therefore a molar device. Drawing mainly on the ideas of Deleuze and Guattari, the reflections on the canon by Benjamin Barber, and the ideas of Colombian thinker Nicolás Gómez Dávila, the text defends the canon as an institution that necessarily functions in a mediocre way (that is, approximately, slow to reform, and below what is desirable), as this is how institutions (un-derstood as a common framework for action for many actors) function. From this perspective, the text examines what the canon does (in terms of what Deleuze calls ethology), and shows both its diverse uses and its capacity for reform (which is, admittedly, slow and clumsy)
Keywords: Canon, philosophy teaching, institutions, Deleuze, Guattari, Barber, Gómez Dávila.
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