Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life

✍ Scribed by Richard Shusterman

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 271
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Applying contemporary pragmatism to the crucial question of how philosophy can help us live better, Shusterman develops his distinctive aesthetic model of philosophical living that includes politics, somatics, and ethnicity, while critically engaging the rival views of Dewey, Wittgenstein, and Foucault, as well as Rorty, Putnam, Goodman, Habermas, and Cavell.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction The Philosophical Life A Renewed Poetics of Philosophy
1 Profiles of the Philosophical Life Dewey, Wittgenstein, Foucault
Part I Ethics and Politics
2 Pragmatism and Liberalism between Dewey and Rorty
3 Putnam and Cavell on the Ethics of Democracy
Part II Art, Knowledge, Praxis
4 Reason and Aesthetics between Modernity and Postmodernity
5 Art in Action, Art Infraction Goodman, Rap, Pragmatism
(New Reality Mix)
Part III Embodiment and Ethnicity
6 Somatic Experience Foundation or Reconstruction?
7 Next Year in Jerusalem? Jewish Identity and the Myth of Return
Notes
Index

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