Deconstruction and Reconstruction: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume 2The 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. |
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Contents
Deweys Rejection | 21 |
FIVE Institutions and Their Reconstruction | 43 |
Three Organizing | 49 |
SEVEN Social Reconstruction and Philosophy | 59 |
Is Nonfoundational | 69 |
NINE Pragmatism Practical and Discourse Ethics | 81 |
TEN American Beauty | 91 |
Design in | 103 |
A Comparison | 129 |
SIXTEEN Deweys Reconstruction of Rationality | 151 |
SEVENTEEN Deconstructors and Reconstructors of the Pragmatist | 165 |
EIGHTEEN Jürgen Habermas Construction | 177 |
TWENTY The Philosophy of John Dewey | 219 |
Deconstruction | 227 |
TWENTY American Philosophy in Its Place | 239 |
About the Editors and Contributors | 245 |
TWELVE Is There a Pragmatist Aesthetics? | 109 |
THIRTEEN How to Build a Pragmatist Aesthetics | 121 |
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| Title | Deconstruction and Reconstruction: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume 2 Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 Volume 2 of Deconstruction and Reconstruction, Central European Pragmatist Forum. Conference Studies in Pragmatism and Values Volume 2 of The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Krystyna Wilkoszewska Value inquiry book series, ISSN 0929-8436 Value inquiry book series: Studies in pragmatism and values |
| Author | Central European Pragmatist Forum. Conference |
| Editors | John Ryder, Krystyna Wilkoszewska |
| Contributors | John Ryder, Krystyna Wilkoszewska |
| Publisher | Rodopi, 2004 |
| ISBN | 9042016817, 9789042016811 |
| Length | 254 pages |
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