Pragmatist Variations on Ethical and Intercultural Life

Informationen zum Autor Lenart Škof is research counselor, associate professor of philosophy and religious studies, and Head of the Anthropology and Philosophy Departments at the University of Primorska. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart I. Towards New Intercultural Spaces of PragmatismChapter 1: Between Radical Empiricism and Intercultural PhilosophyChapter 2: Dewey and Intercultural PhilosophyChapter 3: Dewey and Unger in Context: Towards an Ethical Criterion for DemocracyChapter 4: Rorty and the Future of Intercultural PhilosophyPart II. Towards New Ethical Spaces of PragmatismChapter 5: Schopenhauer and American PragmatismChapter 6: On Rorty¿s Ethics and Philosophy of ReligionChapter 7: On Unger and IrigarayChapter 8: Unger vs. Žižek: Pragmatism and the Limits of Emancipatory PoliticsConclusion

Product details

• Authors: Lenart Eskof, Lenart Skof
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2012
• EAN: 9780739166154
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-6615-4
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism