Book review: Michael A. Peters (ed.), Academic Writing, Philosophy and Genre. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, I, 2009, xiv+ 114 pp., US $39.95 (pbk)

While the currently held conception of academic writing is represented in the notion of 'genre' as an artefact or property of discourse communities with specific disciplinary conventions (see e.g. Berkenkotter and Huckin, 1995; Swales, 1990), the essays in the book strive to portray a prototype academic writing which embarks on literature, philosophy, knowledge and education. The editor, Peters, is a prolific academic who has written extensively on issues of philosophy of education, knowledge production and knowledge economy and is the editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory. The book is a scholarly one, created by those who have experienced philosophical writing and addressed to those who are interested to find out how texts might become philosophical and how philosophical ideas might be discovered in the works of literature.