Self and society : central European pragmatist forum, volume four / edited by Alexander Kremer and John Ryder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Central European Pragmatist Forum.

Series:

Value inquiry book series ; v. 207.

Value inquiry book series. Central-European value studies.

Value inquiry book series ; 207

Central European value studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatism--Congresses.

Pragmatism.

Values--Congresses.

Values.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

PREFACE / Alexander Kremer and John Ryder

SENSE OF SELF, SENSE OF REALITY: A PEIRCEAN APPROACH IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD / Ramón Rodríguez Aguilera

WILLIAM JAMES’S SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SELF / James Campbell

DEWEY AND STEINBECK ON THE INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY / Richard E. Hart

DEWEY AND THE LOST INDIVIDUAL / Donald Morse

THE SOCIAL CHARACTER OF OBLIGATION IN DEWEY’S PRAGMATIC ETHICS / Michael Eldridge

PUBLICS AND PRODUCTS: REASSEMBLING THE SOCIAL / Larry A. Hickman

SOCIAL COOPERATION AS CIVIC VIRTUE / Juan Carlos Mougán Rivero

PERSONAL IDENTITY OF AN INTERSECTIONAL SELF / Kathleen A. Wallace

EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE: GORKY, DEWEY AND FABIAN SOCIALISM / Lyubov Bugaeva

TOWARDS A PRAGMATIC RECONSTRUCTION OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: TRAVELING SELVES AND EPISTEMIC COSMOPOLITANISM / Thomas C. Hilde

GENOCIDE’S AFTERMATH: REFLECTIONS ON SELF AND RESPONSIBILITY / Armen Marsoobian

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY AND FOREIGN POLICY / John Ryder

SOCIAL CONTROL, SELF-CONTROL AND NORMS: A PRAGMATIST APPROACH / Emil Višňovský

THE POLITICAL SELF IN MODERN DEMOCRACY: INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND PERSONAL RIGHTS VERSUS REPUBLICAN VIRTUE AND COMMUNITARIAN RESPONSIVENESS / Gert-Rüdiger Wegmarshaus

COMMUNITY, INDIVIDUALITY, AND EXPERIENCE / Dorota Koczanowicz

RICHARD RORTY’S INTERPRETATION OF SELFHOOD / Alexander Kremer

ON THE ‘LOGIC’ OF RORTY’S IMAGINATIVE LIBERALISM: UTOPIA, SOLIDARITY, AND THE PRIVATE-PUBLIC DISTINCTION / Miklós Nyírő

A KOALA’S FACE, A PIG’S SLAUGHTER, AND RORTY’S CONCEPTION OF SELF AND SOCIETY / Radim Šíp

AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD RORTY / Alexander Kremer

ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

VALUE INQUIRY BOOK SERIES.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-50532-7

9786612505324

90-420-2622-7

1-4416-2552-6

OCLC:

455328602

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042026223 DOI