Pragmatic Fashions - Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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). Zusammenfassung Full color illustrations enhance this lyrical commitment to a new version of pragmatism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor o Stuhr, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy John J (Emory University University of Oregon Emory University University of Oregon Emory University) Stuhr, John Stuhr, John J Stuhr, John J. Stuhr
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780253018847
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01884-7
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: American Philosophy; American Philosophy; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day