Format:
1 online resource (286 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781443803045
Content:
International Perspectives on Pragmatism combines, in a very appealing manner, a pragmatist approach of democracy with practical politics and history of ideas. The result is a meditation on contemporary society, while in the background there is a continuous debate on the concept of democracy, as defining mark of Western culture. Both its critics and its supporters talk about a decay of democracy, which would not justify an idealist perspective anymore. Arguments for this transpire from both t...
Content:
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PROLOGUE -- ON HUMAN DIGNITY -- ASPECTS OF THE CRISIS OF THE WEST -- PART I -- SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY AND DISASTER PREPARATION -- LIBERTARIANISM -- DEMOCRACY, LIBERALISM AND FREEDOM -- WILLIAM JAMES AND THE HAYMARKET AFFAIR -- PRAGMATISM AND POLITICAL PRACTICE -- THE VALUES AND PRACTICES OF DEMOCRACY IN DEWEYAN PRAGMATISM -- THE RIGHT TO PERMANENT RESIDENCY AS A HUMAN RIGHT -- PRAGMATIC ANARCHY IN A. N.WHITEHEAD -- PART II -- RATIONALIST GROUNDS FOR PRAGMATIST DEMOCRACY -- HUMANITY AND MORAL DUTY -- THE RORTYAN CONCEPT OF JUSTICE AS A 'LARGER LOYALTY' -- RORTY ON DEMOCRACY AND JUSTIFICATION -- CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY UNDER THE TYRANNY OF A DEMOCRACY OF THE TRUTH -- PRAGMATISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- TEACHER, DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND METHODS (DEWEY AND HIS PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION) -- A PRAGMATIC DEFENSE OF JUSTICE -- PART III -- COMMUNITY OF ART -- COMMENTS AND QUERIES.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781443801942
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781443801942
Language:
English
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