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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785122903321

Autore

Aboulafia Mitchell

Titolo

Transcendence [[electronic resource] ] : On Self-Determination and Cosmopolitanism

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8047-7510-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Disciplina

128

170

Soggetti

Autonomy (Philosophy)

Self (Philosophy)

Transcendence (Philosophy)

Autonomy (Philosophy) - Philosophy

Cosmopolitanism

Philosophy, Modern

Philosophy & Religion

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Transcendence and Self-determination; 1. Don't Fence Me In: Rorty and Sartre; 2. On Freedom and Action: Dewey and Sartre; 3. A (neo) American in Paris: Bourdieu and Mead; Part II: Cosmopolitanism and Transcendence; 4. Mead on Cosmopolitanism, Sympathy, and War; 5. W. E. B. Du Bois: Double-Consciousness, Jamesian Sympathy, and the Cosmopolitan; Part III: Sociological and Psychological Challenges to Transcendence; 6. Self-Concept in the New Sociology of Ideas: Reflections on Neil Gross's Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher

7. Eros and Self-Determination8. What If Hegel's Master and Slave Were Women?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Transcendence offers an original theory of self and society that reconciles philosophical and political commitments to self-determination, cultural pluralism, and cosmopolitanism.