Ideas to Live For Toward a Global Ethics / Giles Gunn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunn, Giles B.

Series:

Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)

Studies in religion and culture

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

Pragmatism.

Philosophy, American--20th century.

Philosophy, American.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

London : University of Virginia Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The variety of issues he addresses ranges from the theory of culture and cultural criticism (particularly in America), the philosophy of inter- and cross-disciplinary studies, and the psychology and politics of pragmatism to the ethics of human solidarity, the place of culture in the misshaping of international affairs, and the quest of both religion and culture for a new basis for the normative.

Contents:

Who are you really, and what were you before? : reflections on thinking life

The Semiotics of culture and the diagnostics of criticism : Clifford Geertz and the moral imagination

Rorty's Novum organum

Interdisciplinarity and the deepening of the American mind

Multiculturalism, mourning, and the Americas : toward a new pragmatics of inter- and cross-cultural criticism

Religion and the recent rival of pragmatism

Human solidarity and the problem of otherness

The place of culture in the play of international politics

The trans-civilizational, the inter-civilizational, and the human : the quest for the normative in the legitimacy debate

Global ethics.

Notes:

Essays previously published between 1987 and 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813937304

0813937302

OCLC:

916580788