{"product_id":"recovering-integrity-9781498510202","title":"Recovering Integrity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world of moral theory finds no place for the idea of integrity.  The natural intellectual home of the idea of integrity is the American pragmatist tradition.  Pragmatism makes possible an account of integrity that enables it to become philosophically central in thinking about morality.  The idea of integrity enables what Dewey called a working theory of morality.  Other intellectual traditions, including those most prominent in the academic world of moral philosophy, ignore integrity because of its imprecision and its inability to deliver precise answers to questions about what is right or wrong, good or bad.  Recovering Integrity: Moral Thought in American Pragmatism explains how integrity can and should become central in philosophical thought about morality.  Only within the intellectual tradition of American pragmatism may integrity achieve the intellectual stature it deserves as the central idea in ordinary moral thought.  The ideas of morally diverse communities are unified to\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosenbaum makes a powerful case for a distinctively pragmatic moral perspective that provides a natural fit for the sort of pluralist, democratic, social world many of us associate with America at her best. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eRecovering Integrity represents a pronounced effort to move contemporary moral philosophy in the direction of a sensitive, context-specific, and pragmatic approach to resolving moral dilemmas. In this, it is a welcome and worthy undertaking. * Contemporary Pragmatism *\u003cbr\u003eRosenbaum has succeeded admirably in balancing a pragmatist conception of the fluidity and diversity of the constituents of selfhood, with his often brilliant insights on how integrity brings a level of cohesiveness to one’s character and choices. This is a wide-ranging, learned, provocative and very original book, which will be of great interest to many. -- Guy Axtell, Radford University\u003cbr\u003eThis is one of those rare philosophy texts that is modest and accurate, and yet hard to put down. Its novel presentation of the moral meanings of pragmatism suggests new resolutions to the old perplexities; its unpredictable tactics against pragmatism’s powerful detractors unfold like an adventure. -- William Dean, professor emeritus, Iliff School of Theology\u003cbr\u003eIn Stuart Rosenbaum’s view, pragmatism resists the Platonist desire to 'get things right'; resists ‘agendas of justification’; and resists dwelling on conceptual ‘necessities’ and ‘niceties.’ Deepening and extending aspects of his previous book, Pragmatism and the Reflective Life, Rosenbaum now uses his distinctive view of pragmatism to focus attention on what integrity, in Dewey’s phrase, ‘exists as.’ The result is a work of philosophical and cultural significance, one energized by decidedly provocative reflections on integrity…and on the integrity of pragmatism itself. -- Victor Kestenbaum, Boston University\u003cbr\u003eWhat does it take to have integrity? How does quality bind together individual, community, and the wider environment? Combining familiar and engaging examples with ideas from the pragmatist tradition, Rosenbaum’s Recovering Integrity offers real answers and genuine wisdom. -- David Hildebrand, University of Colorado Denver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: Cases and Integrity Chapter Two: Integrity and Pragmatism  Chapter Three: Relativism?  Chapter Four: Intellectual Integrity  Chapter Five: Personal Integrity  Chapter Six: Integrity and Environment  Chapter Seven: Integrity and Reality","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040640598359,"sku":"9781498510202","price":79.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498510202.jpg?v=1750947362","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/recovering-integrity-9781498510202","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}