John J Stuhr

Pragmatic Fashions

Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd

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Produktbeschreibung

John J. Stuhr is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and American Studies and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Emory University. He is author of Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and the Future of Philosophy and editor of 100 Years of Pragmatism: William James's Revolutionary Philosophy (IUP, 2010).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780253018915
• ISBN-10: 0253018919
• Artikelnr.: 42741111

Autorenporträt

John J. Stuhr

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Expressivism and Pragmatism
1. Chance Vistas and Sincerity in the Cosmic Labyrinth
2. Philosophies as Fashions
3. Does Philosophy Progress?: Criticism without Critique
4. Convergence and Difference: Immanent Pluralism
5. It's All Relative: Beyond Absolutism and Nihilism
6. Expressions of Nature: Refashioning the Hudson River School
7. Old Ideals Crumble: War and the Limits of Philosophy
8. Democracy as Public Experiment: Beyond Mission Accomplished and Mission
Impossible
9. A Terrible Love of Hope: Toward Peace Before Death
10. Absurd Pragmatism
11. The Spring Collection: Intermedia Moralia; or, a Romance of Our
Incoherence
Notes
Index