Pragmatic fashions : pluralism, democracy, relativism, and the absurd / John J. Stuhr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stuhr, John J., author.

Series:

American philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatism.

Philosophy, American.

Fashion--Miscellanea.

Fashion.

Arts.

Miscellanea.

Physical Description:

xi, 256 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2016]

Summary:

John J. Stuhr, a leading voice in American philosophy, sets forth a view of pragmatism as a personal work of art or fashion. Stuhr develops his pragmatism by putting pluralism forward, setting aside absolutism and nihilism, opening new perspectives on democracy, and focusing on love. He creates a space for a philosophy that is liable to failure and that is experimental, pluralist, relativist, radically empirical, radically democratic, and absurd. Full color illustrations enhance this lyrical commitment to a new version of pragmatism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chance vistas and sincerity in the cosmic labyrinth

Philosophies as fashions

Does philosophy progress?: criticism without critique

Convergence and difference: immanent pluralism

It's all relative: beyond absolutism and nihilism

Expressions of nature: refashioning the Hudson River School

Old ideals crumble: war and the limits of philosophy

Democracy as public experiment: beyond mission accomplished and mission impossible

A terrible love of hope: toward peace before death

Absurd pragmatism

The spring collection: intermedia moralia; or, a romance of our incoherence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253018915

0253018919

9780253018847

0253018846

OCLC:

908990332