Values and powers : re-reading the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism /

This book shows how much and in what sense values are related to powers and powers are related to values in American pragmatism. The proposed re-reading of American pragmatism will facilitate a novel understanding of it as a philosophical movement and, by showing its truly humanistic, democratic, an...

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Main Author: Skowroński, Krzysztof Piotr.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 213.
Rodopi Religion, Theology and Philosophy Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2014, ISBN: 9789004357938.

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Call Number: B832 .S56 2009eb

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-195) and index. 
505 0 0 |a Preliminary Material -- VALUES AND POWERS IN A PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT -- A PRELUDE TO AMERICAN PRAGMATISM. TRANSCENDENTALISM AS "THE POWER OF THOUGHT AND OF WILL" -- CHARLES S. PEIRCE'S PRAGMATICISM AND THE REVALUATION OF THINKING ON 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 -- POWERS AND PERFECTIONS IN GEORGE SANTAYANA'S ABULENSEAN PRAGMATISM -- FINAL REMARKS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- VALUE INQUIRY BOOK SERIES. 
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