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Book SynopsisThis is a book about pragmatism, intercultural philosophy, and ethics that attempts to bring to the fore the variations on the ethical and intercultural life of pragmatism, based on readings of William James, John Dewey, Richard Rorty, and Roberto Mangabeira Unger. To this foursome is added the leading feminist thinker of our age, Luce Irigaray.
Trade ReviewThis book eloquently argues and illustrates why pragmatism remains one of the most interesting and still promising philosophical traditions on the intellectual scene. Redolent of Rorty’s ebullient and generous readings, Škof shows how at the heart of pragmatism is a corporeal ethics of co-responsibility, a watchful attentiveness to the generative civic praxis of communities, and a solicitous hermeneutics that calls for an intercultural philosophy. Rorty’s proclamation of a post-philosophical culture is here translated in terms of an intercultural philosophy. This book also has the added virtue of excavating for us a fascinating genealogy that should make us more humble and reticent to bunt around anachronistic terms such as analytic and continental. -- Eduardo Mendieta, Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University
One must welcome the efforts made by Lenart Škof to promote a democracy that is not based only on money, goods and conflicts for appropriating them. -- Luce Irigaray
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Towards New Intercultural Spaces of Pragmatism Chapter 1: Between Radical Empiricism and Intercultural Philosophy Chapter 2: Dewey and Intercultural Philosophy Chapter 3: Dewey and Unger in Context: Towards an Ethical Criterion for Democracy Chapter 4: Rorty and the Future of Intercultural Philosophy Part II. Towards New Ethical Spaces of Pragmatism Chapter 5: Schopenhauer and American Pragmatism Chapter 6: On Rorty´s Ethics and Philosophy of Religion Chapter 7: On Unger and Irigaray Chapter 8: Unger vs. Žižek: Pragmatism and the Limits of Emancipatory Politics Conclusion
