Lenart Skof

Pragmatist Variations on Ethical and Intercultural Life

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a book about pragmatism, intercultural philosophy, and ethics that attempts to bring to the fore the variations on the ethical and intercultural life of pragmatism, based on readings of William James, John Dewey, Richard Rorty, and Roberto Mangabeira Unger. To this foursome is added the leading feminist thinker of our age, Luce Irigaray.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9780739166154
• ISBN-10: 0739166158
• Artikelnr.: 35058176

Autorenporträt

Lenart kof is research counselor, associate professor of philosophy and religious studies, and Head of the Anthropology and Philosophy Departments at the University of Primorska.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I. Towards New Intercultural Spaces of Pragmatism Chapter
1: Between Radical Empiricism and Intercultural Philosophy Chapter 2: Dewey
and Intercultural Philosophy Chapter 3: Dewey and Unger in Context: Towards
an Ethical Criterion for Democracy Chapter 4: Rorty and the Future of
Intercultural Philosophy Part II. Towards New Ethical Spaces of Pragmatism
Chapter 5: Schopenhauer and American Pragmatism Chapter 6: On Rorty¿s
Ethics and Philosophy of Religion Chapter 7: On Unger and Irigaray Chapter
8: Unger vs. iek: Pragmatism and the Limits of Emancipatory Politics
Conclusion