Values and powers : re-reading the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism / Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skowroński, Krzysztof Piotr.

Series:

Value inquiry book series ; v. 213.

Value inquiry book series. Central-European value studies

Value inquiry book series ; v. 213

Central-European value studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatism.

Values--United States.

Values.

United States.

Power (Social sciences)--United States.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

xvi, 202 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction : values and powers in a philosophical context

Pt. 1, Proto-pragmatic approach to values and powers. A prelude to American pragmatism : transcendentalism as the power of thought and of will ; Charles S. Pierce's pragmaticism and the revaluation of thinking on values and powers

Pt. 2, Pragmatic approach to values and powers. The axiology of pragmatic metaphysics : the powers of men in William James ; Loyalty to a worthy cause and provincialism as saving power in Josiah Royce ; John Dewey and the might of democratic values ; Democracy and exclusion in pragmatic aesthetics (Dewey, Shusterman, Margolis) ; Evaluative character of social interactions in George Herbert Mead ; Richard Rorty's liberal democracy and the limits of cultural imperialism

Pt. 3, Quasi-pragmatic approach to values and powers. Powers and perfections in George Santayana's Abulensean pragmatism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-195) and index.

ISBN:

9789042027459

9042027452

9789042027466

9042027460

OCLC:

499583178