Deconstruction and Reconstruction: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume 2Rodopi, 2004 - 254 pages The 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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THREE | 21 |
FOUR | 31 |
FIVE | 43 |
Social Reconstruction and Philosophy | 59 |
Is Nonfoundational | 69 |
Pragmatism Practical and Discourse Ethics | 81 |
TEN American Beauty | 91 |
THIRTEEN How to Build a Pragmatist Aesthetics | 121 |
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 |
Design in | 103 |
TWELVE Is There a Pragmatist Aesthetics? | 109 |
About the Editors and Contributors | 245 |
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