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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829893803321

Autore

Gunn Giles B

Titolo

Ideas to Live For : Toward a Global Ethics / / Giles Gunn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : University of Virginia Press, , [2015]

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2015

©[2015]

ISBN

0-8139-3730-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Studies in religion and culture

Disciplina

191

Soggetti

Globalization

Pragmatism

Philosophy, American - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Essays previously published between 1987 and 2012.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Who are you really, and what were you before? : reflections on thinking life -- The Semiotics of culture and the diagnostics of criticism : Clifford Geertz and the moral imagination -- Rorty's Novum organum -- Interdisciplinarity and the deepening of the American mind -- Multiculturalism, mourning, and the Americas : toward a new pragmatics of inter- and cross-cultural criticism -- Religion and the recent rival of pragmatism -- Human solidarity and the problem of otherness -- The place of culture in the play of international politics -- The trans-civilizational, the inter-civilizational, and the human : the quest for the normative in the legitimacy debate -- Global ethics.