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Record Nr.

UNINA9910525518303321

Autore

Hickman Larry A. <1942->

Titolo

Pragmatism as post-postmodernism : lessons from John Dewey / / Larry A. Hickman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8232-4839-9

0-8232-3554-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

American philosophy series

Disciplina

191

Soggetti

Pragmatism

Postmodernism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Postmodernism -- Classical pragmatism : waiting at the end of the road -- Pragmatism, postmodernism, and global citizenship -- Classical pragmatism, postmodernism, and neopragmatism -- Technology -- Classical pragmatism and communicative action : Jurgen Habermas -- From critical theory to pragmatism : Andrew Feenberg -- A neo-heideggerian critique of technology : Albert Borgmann -- Doing and making in a democracy : John Dewey -- The environment -- Nature as culture : John Dewey and Aldo Leopold -- Green pragmatism : reals without realism and ideals without idealism -- Classical pragmatism -- What was Dewey's magic number? -- Cultivating a common faith : Dewey's religion -- Beyond the epistemology industry : Dewey's theory of inquiry -- The homo faber debate in Dewey and Max Scheler -- Productive pragmatism : habits as artifacts in Peirce and Dewey.

Sommario/riassunto

Larry A. Hickman presents John Dewey as very much at home in the busy mix of contemporary philosophy - as a thinker whose work now, more than 50 years after his death, still furnishes fresh insights into cutting-edge philosophical debates.