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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- PREFACE / Alexander Kremer and John Ryder -- SENSE OF SELF, SENSE OF REALITY: A PEIRCEAN APPROACH IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD / Ramón Rodríguez Aguilera -- WILLIAM JAMES’S SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE SELF / James Campbell -- DEWEY AND STEINBECK ON THE INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY / Richard E. Hart -- DEWEY AND THE LOST INDIVIDUAL / Donald Morse -- THE SOCIAL CHARACTER OF OBLIGATION IN DEWEY’S PRAGMATIC ETHICS / Michael Eldridge -- PUBLICS AND PRODUCTS: REASSEMBLING THE SOCIAL / Larry A. Hickman -- SOCIAL COOPERATION AS CIVIC VIRTUE / Juan Carlos Mougán Rivero -- PERSONAL IDENTITY OF AN INTERSECTIONAL SELF / Kathleen A. Wallace -- EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE: GORKY, DEWEY AND FABIAN SOCIALISM / Lyubov Bugaeva -- TOWARDS A PRAGMATIC RECONSTRUCTION OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: TRAVELING SELVES AND EPISTEMIC COSMOPOLITANISM / Thomas C. Hilde -- GENOCIDE’S AFTERMATH: REFLECTIONS ON SELF AND RESPONSIBILITY / Armen Marsoobian -- AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY AND FOREIGN POLICY / John Ryder -- SOCIAL CONTROL, SELF-CONTROL AND NORMS: A PRAGMATIST APPROACH / Emil Višňovský -- THE POLITICAL SELF IN MODERN DEMOCRACY: INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND PERSONAL RIGHTS VERSUS REPUBLICAN VIRTUE AND COMMUNITARIAN RESPONSIVENESS / Gert-Rüdiger Wegmarshaus -- COMMUNITY, INDIVIDUALITY, AND EXPERIENCE / Dorota Koczanowicz -- RICHARD RORTY’S INTERPRETATION OF SELFHOOD / Alexander Kremer -- ON THE ‘LOGIC’ OF RORTY’S IMAGINATIVE LIBERALISM: UTOPIA, SOLIDARITY, AND THE PRIVATE-PUBLIC DISTINCTION / Miklós Nyírő -- A KOALA’S FACE, A PIG’S SLAUGHTER, AND RORTY’S CONCEPTION OF SELF AND SOCIETY / Radim Šíp -- AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD RORTY / Alexander Kremer -- ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- VALUE INQUIRY BOOK SERIES.