Self and Society

The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume Four
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-420-2621-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 207, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Central European Value Studies

This book is the fourth volume of selected papers from the Central European Pragmatist Forum (CEPF). It deals with the general question of self and society, and the papers are organized into sections on Self and History, Self and Society, Self and Politics, Self and Neopragmatism, and an Interview with Richard Rorty. The authors are among the leading specialists in American philosophy from universities across the US and in Central and Eastern Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kremer, Alexander

Ryder, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Joseph Margolis
Preface by Alexander Kremer and John Ryder
Self and History
Ramón Rodríguez Aguilera: Sense of Self, Sense of Reality: A Peircean Approach in a Globalizing World
James Campbell: William James’s Social Understanding of the Self
Richard E. Hart: Dewey and Steinbeck on the Individual and Community
Donald Morse: Dewey and the Lost Individual
Self and Society
Michael Eldridge: The Social Character of Obligation in Dewey’s Pragmatic Ethics
Larry A. Hickman: Publics and Products: Reassembling the Social
Juan Carlos Mougán Rivero: Social Cooperation as Civic Virtue
Kathleen A. Wallace: Personal Identity of an Intersectional Self
Lyubov Bugaeva: Education and Social Change: Gorky, Dewey and Fabian Socialism
Self and Politics
Thomas C. Hilde: Towards a Pragmatic Reconstruction of International Institutions: Traveling Selves and Epistemic Cosmopolitanism
Armen Marsoobian: Genocide’s Aftermath: Reflections on Self and Responsibility
John Ryder: American Philosophy and Foreign Policy
Emil Višnovský: Social Control, Self-Control and Norms: a Pragmatist Approach
Gert-Rüdiger Wegmarshaus: The Political Self in Modern Democracy: Individual Liberty and Personal Rights versus Republican Virtue and Communitarian Responsiveness
Self and Neopragmatism
Dorota Koczanowicz: Community, Individuality, and Experience
Alexander Kremer: Richard Rorty’s Interpretation of Selfhood
Miklós Nyíro: On the ‘Logic’ of Rorty’s Imaginative Liberalism: Utopia, Solidarity, and the Private-Public Distinction
Radim Šíp: A Koala’s Face, A Pig’s Slaughters, and Rorty’s Conception of Self and Society
Interview
Alexander Kremer: An Interview with Richard Rorty
About the Editors and Contributors
Index