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

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.

Subjects:

Pragmatism.
Values > United States.
Power (Social sciences) > United States.
Power (Social sciences)
Values.
United States.

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Call Number: B832 .S56 2009eb

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.