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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume are from the Second Conference of the Central European Pragmatist Forum, held in Krakow, Poland in 2002. Written by prominent specialists in pragmatism and American philosophy from the United States and Europe, they survey contemporary thinking on classical and contemporary pragmatism, social and political theory, ethics, aesthetics, experience, knowledge, rationality, metaphysics, and the application of pragmatist thought in contemporary Europe.
Table of ContentsForeword by Hans Joas Preface by John Ryder and Krystyna Wilkoszewska ONE John J. McDERMOTT: Transiency and Amelioration: Revisited TOWARD DEMOCRACY TWO Gert-Rüdiger WEGMARSHAUS: Cooperation, Education, and Community: Reconstructing John Dewey’s Conception of Democracy as a Way of Life THREE Martin KILANOWSKI: Individual and Community: Dewey’s Rejection of Sharp Distinctions in Social and Political Philosophy FOUR John R. SHOOK: Deliberative Democracy and Moral Pluralism: Dewey vs. Rawls and Habermas FIVE James CAMPBELL: Institutions and Their Reconstruction SIX Mark LOVAS: Modules, Norms, and Justice: Three Organizing Principles and the Need for Social Criticism SEVEN Michael ELDRIDGE: Social Reconstruction and Philosophy ETHICS EIGHT Leszek KOCZANOWICZ: Sources of Solidarity: Is Non-foundational Ethics Irrational? NINE Paul B. THOMPSON: Pragmatism, Practical and Discourse Ethics AESTHETICS TEN Anthony J. GRAYBOSCH: American Beauty ELEVEN Leif ÖSTMAN: The Client as Designer: Design in the Mirror of Pragmatist Philosophy TWELVE Armen T. MARSOOBIAN: Is There a Pragmatist Aesthetics? THIRTEEN Krystyna WILKOSZEWSKA: How to Build a Pragmatist Aesthetics SELF, REASON, KNOWLEDGE FOURTEEN Hans-Peter KRÜGER: The Specifications of Human Beings: A Comparison of John Dewey’s and Helmuth Plessner’s Approaches FIFTEEN Lyubov BUGAEVA: Santayana’s Imaginative Knowledge: Presenting an Object SIXTEEN Emil VIŠŇOVSKÝ: Dewey’s Reconstruction of Rationality SEVENTEEN Jane SKINNER: Deconstructors and Reconstructors of the Pragmatist Project: An Educational Viewpoint EIGHTEEN Igor HANZEL: Jürgen Habermas’ Construction and Deconstruction of the World NINETEEN Vincent COLAPIETRO: Social Practice and Pragmatic Inquiry: Dewey and Bourdieu FACING ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY TWENTY Tadeusz SZUBKA: The Theory of Meaning and Pragmatism: Michael Dummett and John Dewey TWENTY ONE Piotr GUTOWSKI: The Philosophy of John Dewey and the Problem of Realism TWENTY TWO Mateusz OLEKSY: The Battle Against Metaphysics: Deconstruction and Deflation on the Common Track TWENTY THREE John RYDER: American Philosophy in Its Place About the Editors and Contributors Index
