224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Pragmatism, Postmodernism and the Future of Philosophy is a vigorous and dynamic confrontation with the task and temperament of philosophy today. In this energetic and far-reaching new book, Stuhr draws persuasively on the resources of the pragmatist tradition of James and Dewey, and critically engages the work of Continental philosophers like Adorno, Foucault, and Deleuze, to explore fundamental... Read more
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Thinking beyond the Twentieth Century: Democracy and Education after Liberalism; Chapter 2 The Defects of Liberalism: Lasting Elements of Negative Pragmatism; Chapter 3 Democracy as a Way of Life, Democracy in the Face of Terrorism; Chapter 4 Relevances, Realities, and Rat Races: Democracy as a; Personal; Way of Life; Chapter 5 From the Art of Surfaces to Control Societies and Beyond: Stoicism, Postmodernism, and Pan-Machinism; Chapter 6 From Consciousness of Doom to Criticism: Non-Dialectical Critical Theory; Chapter 7 Genealogy, Critique, and Transformation: In Our Time; Chapter 8 Power/Inquiry: Criticism and the Logic of Pragmatism; Chapter 9 Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Future of Philosophy: Farewell to an Idea; Chapter 10 No Consolation: Life without Spirituality, Philosophy without Transcendence;
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John J. Stuhr
