Josiah Royce for the twenty-first century : historical, ethical, and religious interpretations / edited by Kelly A. Parker and Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parker, Kelly A., 1963-

Skowroński, Krzysztof Piotr.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophers.

Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916.

Royce, Josiah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The collection presents a variety of promising new directions in Royce scholarship from an international group of scholars, including historical reinterpretations, explorations of Royce's ethics of loyalty and religious philosophy, and contemporary applications of his ideas in psychology, the problem of reference, neo-pragmatism, and literary aesthetics.

Contents:

Josiah Royce for the Twenty-First Century; Contents; Introduction: Contemporary Readings of Josiah Royce; Part I Historical Reinterpretations; 1 Psychological, Phenomenological, and Metaphysical Individuality in Royce's Philosophy; 2 Some Kantian Extrapolations from Roy; 3 Riddles and Resolutions: Infinity, Community, and the Absolute in Royce's Later Philosophy; 4 Man as Sign and Man as Self-Surrender: Peirce, Royce, and an Attempted Trans-Valuation of the Concept of Humanity; Part II Ethics: Interpretations of Loyalty; 5 "Loyalty": Royce's Post-Kantian, Pragmaticist Conception of Ethics

6 The Incompleteness of Loyalty7 Josiah Royce's Loyalty in the Context of Values and Powers; 8 Training for Loyalty to a Lost Cause as a Method of Royce's Social Pedagogy; Part III Religious Philosophy; 9 Searching for Rhymes: Royce's Idealistic Quest; 10 Pragmatism as Idealist Monotheism: Royce, Rorty, and the Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion; 11 Royce and the Recovery of the Personal; 12 Atonement and Eidetic Extinction; Part IV Contemporary Implications; 13 Mind as Personal and Social Narrative of an Embodied Self; 14 The Fourth Conception of Being and the Problem of Reference

15 On Being Loyal (to the Wrong Hegel): Rorty and Royce between Literary Culture and Redemptive Truth16 Towards a Roycean Poetics; Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-28492-5

1-280-77013-9

9786613680907

0-7391-7337-5

OCLC:

854520024