Politics/Sense/Experience : : A Pragmatic Inquiry into the Promise of Democracy / / Timothy Kaufman-Osborn.

This book mobilizes the spirit of pragmatism to explore an issue central to modernity: the vitality of democracy in a technological age.In an unconventional way, Timothy Kaufman-Osborn weaves John Dewey's words with his own in order to address, among others, Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Descartes,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1991
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Relocating the Pragmata of Pragmatism
  • 2. Politics and the Emergence of Reason
  • 3. How the Enlightenment Went Awry
  • 4. Liberalism and the Community of Facts
  • 5. Critical Theory and the Politics of Talk
  • 6. The State of Political Science
  • 7. The Constitution of Democratic Political Experience
  • Postscript: On Pragmatism's Cash-Value
  • Index