Values and powers : : re-reading the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism /

Values and powers : : re-reading the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism / / Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński.

This book shows how much and in what sense values are related to powers and powers are related to values in American pragmatism. The proposed re-reading of American pragmatism will facilitate a novel understanding of it as a philosophical movement and, by showing its truly humanistic, democratic, an...

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Superior document:Value inquiry book series ; v. 213
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Skowroński, Krzysztof Piotr.
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2009.
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Value Inquiry Book Series 213.
Physical Description:1 online resource (222 pages).
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • VALUES AND POWERS IN A PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT
  • A PRELUDE TO AMERICAN PRAGMATISM. TRANSCENDENTALISM AS “THE POWER OF THOUGHT AND OF WILL”
  • CHARLES S. PEIRCE’S PRAGMATICISM AND THE REVALUATION OF THINKING ON VALUES AND POWERS
  • THE AXIOLOGY OF PRAGMATIC METAPHYSICS. THE POWERS OF MEN IN WILLIAM JAMES
  • LOYALTY TO A WORTHY CAUSE AND PROVINCIALISM AS “SAVING POWER” IN JOSIAH ROYCE
  • JOHN DEWEY AND THE MIGHT OF DEMOCRATIC VALUES
  • DEMOCRACY AND EXCLUSION IN PRAGMATIC AESTHETICS (DEWEY, SHUSTERMAN, MARGOLIS)
  • EVALUATIVE CHARACTER OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN GEORGE HERBERT MEAD
  • RICHARD RORTY’S LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND THE LIMITS OF CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
  • POWERS AND PERFECTIONS IN GEORGE SANTAYANA’S ABULENSEAN PRAGMATISM
  • FINAL REMARKS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • INDEX
  • VALUE INQUIRY BOOK SERIES.

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