Values and powers : re-reading the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism
Power (Social sciences) Pragmatism Values sähkökirjat
Rodopi
2009
EISBN 9789042027466
Introduction : values and powers in a philosophical context.
pt. 1, Proto-pragmatic approach to values and powers. A prelude to American pragmatism : transcendentalism as the power of thought and of will ; Charles S. Pierce's pragmaticism and the revaluation of thinking on values and powers.
pt. 2, Pragmatic approach to values and powers. The axiology of pragmatic metaphysics : the powers of men in William James ; Loyalty to a worthy cause and provincialism as saving power in Josiah Royce ; John Dewey and the might of democratic values ; Democracy and exclusion in pragmatic aesthetics (Dewey, Shusterman, Margolis) ; Evaluative character of social interactions in George Herbert Mead ; Richard Rorty's liberal democracy and the limits of cultural imperialism.
pt. 3, Quasi-pragmatic approach to values and powers. Powers and perfections in George Santayana's Abulensean pragmatism.
pt. 1, Proto-pragmatic approach to values and powers. A prelude to American pragmatism : transcendentalism as the power of thought and of will ; Charles S. Pierce's pragmaticism and the revaluation of thinking on values and powers.
pt. 2, Pragmatic approach to values and powers. The axiology of pragmatic metaphysics : the powers of men in William James ; Loyalty to a worthy cause and provincialism as saving power in Josiah Royce ; John Dewey and the might of democratic values ; Democracy and exclusion in pragmatic aesthetics (Dewey, Shusterman, Margolis) ; Evaluative character of social interactions in George Herbert Mead ; Richard Rorty's liberal democracy and the limits of cultural imperialism.
pt. 3, Quasi-pragmatic approach to values and powers. Powers and perfections in George Santayana's Abulensean pragmatism.
