Philosophical challenges of plurality in a global world / edited by David Díaz-Soto, Delia Mazanero and Bianca Thoilliez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Díaz-Soto, David.

Mazanero, Delia.

Thoilliez, Bianca.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pluralism--Congresses.

Pluralism.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvii, 218 pages

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

This book is a collection of essays by a select array of international scholars, on a range of issues concerning plurality, pluralism, and other closely related concepts, which constitute the framework and guiding thread for the whole volume. The themes and subjects dealt with here address issues of the greatest concern, particularly in the delicate context of present-day Europe and of modern societies with a global scale. The volume's basis is the belief that pluralism, globality, technology, mass media, and computer networks are distinctive traits of contemporary society in all its complexity - and that, therefore, such notions provide essential conceptual tools for explaining and understanding the current age. Featured in this volume are twelve contributions by scholars from different fields of philosophy, the humanities and the social sciences. In their essays, the contributors address the complexities of the contemporary world and the challenges with which it confronts all these disciplines. In this way, they provide a philosophical analysis of phenomena, situations, and problems that are typical of this complex world. Their different approaches and disciplinary perspectives all share an open-mindedness which is characteristic of the philosophical attitude; but also take into account the results of research in different fields of the human sciences as applied to the study of contemporary society, politics and culture, as well as artistic practice and aesthetic experience. This book will be of interest for scholars in the fields of philosophy, political sciences, Spanish thought, theory of art and literature; for students in programs of cultural studies or of the different fields of the humanities; and for the general reader with an interest in philosophical reflection on the complexities of pluralism and the modern world. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section I Political Frameworks and Philosophy of Law

Chapter 1 Communicative Action Theory and Social Understanding / Jairo Miguel Torres Oviedo Oviedo, Jairo Miguel Torres 3

Chapter 2 Glocal Politics and Law: Why Scholars do not Understand Each Other and What are the Veils of Confusion / Antonio Sánchez-Bayón Sánchez-Bayón, Antonio, Sebastián J. Sánchez-Rivera Sánchez-Rivera, Sebastián J. 27

Chapter 3 Voting in a Pluralistic World: Some Democratic Paradoxes Concerning Referendums / Przemyslaw Krzywoszynski Krzywoszynski, Przemyslaw 55

Chapter 4 Judicial Virtues in the Twenty-first Century: Awareness, Empathy, and Respect for Plurality / Diana Richards Richards, Diana 65

Section II Mass-Media, Technology, and Society

Chapter 5 The Rise of New Subjectivities: Processes of Subjectivization and Power from "Societies of Control" to the "Network Society" / Paolo Vignola Vignola, Paolo 79

Chapter 6 Terrorism and Globalization: A Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Analysis / Laura García Portela Portela, Laura García 97

Chapter 7 Atlas of an Aggressive Spirituality / Ignacio Castro Castro, Ignacio 117

Section III Philosophy, Literature, and Culture

Chapter 8 The Discourse on Reason in Contemporary Spanish Philosophy / Barbara Kazimierczak Kazimierczak, Barbara 129

Chapter 9 The Philosophy of Law of Francisco Giner and its Philosophical Origins in the Socio-legal Doctrine of European Krausism / Delia Manzanero Manzanero, Delia 141

Chapter 10 A Pragmatist Reconsideration of Pluralism in Schools / Bianca Thoilliez Thoilliez, Bianca 165

Chapter 11 "The Kindly Ones" (Les Bienveillantes): The Red Herrings within a Theory of Intercultural Rationality / Kataizyna Gan-Krzywoszynska Gan-Krzywoszynska, Kataizyna, Piotr Lesniewski Lesniewski, Piotr 177

Chapter 12 On Human Alienation and Cultural Disappearance of Frontiers: Two Diagnoses of Contemporary Culture / David Díaz-Soto Díaz-Soto, David 199.

ISBN:

1443860506

9781443860505

OCLC:

885014662

Publisher Number:

99959509753