PRAGMATISM AND DIVERSITY by Judith M. Green (Editor), Stefan Neubert (Editor), Kersten Reich (Editor) ( 9781137010605 )

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Title:

PRAGMATISM AND DIVERSITY
DEWEY IN THE CONTEXT OF LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY DEBATES

By:

Judith M. Green (Editor), Stefan Neubert (Editor), Kersten Reich (Editor)

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Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

1137010606

ISBN 13:

9781137010605

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

31 January, 2012

Description:

Diversity is an unavoidable aspect of twenty-first century living. The authors in this volume engage in cross-difference conversations with other thinkers from earlier periods and other philosophical traditions in order to reconstruct pragmatism and cosmopolitanism in ways that are more attuned to our lived experience of diversity.

Synopsis:

Diversity is both an unavoidable aspect of twenty-first century living and a powerful challenge to older philosophical traditions that still assume as normatively universal a set of values, ways of thinking, institutions, and habits of living that emerged within earlier eras of more homogeneous cultures, less developed technologies, and more accepted forms of linguistic, legal, religious, economic, political, and military domination. Within recent years, new styles of philosophical discourse, including deconstruction, postmodernism, feminism, post-colonialism, and critical race theory, have persuasively challenged these universalistic assumptions to reveal the important human differences they marginalize. Experience-based appreciation of the mutually educative potential of diverse standpoints as well as sober concern about the perils of our present times have led many thinkers to look for contemporary forms of pragmatism and cosmopolitanism as hospitable intellectual gathering places for urgently needed cross-difference conversations that may reflect and give substance to shared visions of democratic diversity.The eight authors in this volume engage in cross-difference conversations with other thinkers from earlier periods and other philosophical traditions, as well as with each other, in order to reconstruct pragmatism and cosmopolitanism in ways that are more attuned to our lived experience of diversity as well as our hopes for a diversity-appreciating democratic future.

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