Self and society : central European pragmatist forum, volume four / / edited by Alexander Kremer and John Ryder.

• Superior document: Value inquiry book series ; 207
• Author: Central European Pragmatist Forum.
• TeilnehmendeR: Central European Pragmatist Forum.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; v. 207.; Value inquiry book series. Central-European value studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; PREFACE /; SENSE OF SELF, SENSE OF REALITY: A PEIRCEAN APPROACH IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD /; WILLIAM JAMES’S SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SELF /; DEWEY AND STEINBECK ON THE INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY /; DEWEY AND THE LOST INDIVIDUAL /; THE SOCIAL CHARACTER OF OBLIGATION IN DEWEY’S PRAGMATIC ETHICS /; PUBLICS AND PRODUCTS: REASSEMBLING THE SOCIAL /; SOCIAL COOPERATION AS CIVIC VIRTUE /; PERSONAL IDENTITY OF AN INTERSECTIONAL SELF /; EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE: GORKY, DEWEY AND FABIAN SOCIALISM /; TOWARDS A PRAGMATIC RECONSTRUCTION OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: TRAVELING SELVES AND EPISTEMIC COSMOPOLITANISM /; GENOCIDE’S AFTERMATH: REFLECTIONS ON SELF AND RESPONSIBILITY /; AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY AND FOREIGN POLICY /; SOCIAL CONTROL, SELF-CONTROL AND NORMS: A PRAGMATIST APPROACH /; THE POLITICAL SELF IN MODERN DEMOCRACY: INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND PERSONAL RIGHTS VERSUS REPUBLICAN VIRTUE AND COMMUNITARIAN RESPONSIVENESS /; COMMUNITY, INDIVIDUALITY, AND EXPERIENCE /; RICHARD RORTY’S INTERPRETATION OF SELFHOOD /; ON THE ‘LOGIC’ OF RORTY’S IMAGINATIVE LIBERALISM: UTOPIA, SOLIDARITY, AND THE PRIVATE-PUBLIC DISTINCTION /; A KOALA’S FACE, A PIG’S SLAUGHTER, AND RORTY’S CONCEPTION OF SELF AND SOCIETY /; AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD RORTY /; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX --; VALUE INQUIRY BOOK SERIES.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282505327; 9786612505324; 9042026227; 1441625526
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Alexander Kremer and John Ryder.

This book is the fourth volume of selected papers from the Central European Pragmatist Forum (CEPF). It deals with the general question of self and society, and the papers are organized into sections on Self and History, Self and Society, Self and Politics, Self and Neopragmatism, and an Interview with Richard Rorty. The authors are among the leading specialists in American philosophy from universities across the US and in Central and Eastern Europe.