LEADER 04267nam 22004815 450 001 9910324046103321 005 20200723103303.0 010 $a0-8232-8528-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823285280 035 $a(CKB)4100000008277090 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00125244 035 $a(DE-B1597)555458 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823285280 035 $a(OCoLC)1178768795 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008277090 100 $a20200723h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Politics of Survival $ePeirce, Affectivity, and Social Criticism /$fLara Trout 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY : $cFordham University Press, $d[2019] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 362 pages) 225 0 $aAmerican Philosophy 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAbbreviations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Peircean Affectivity -- $t2 The Affectivity of Cognition: Journal of Speculative Philosophy Cognition Series, 1868?69 -- $t3 The Affectivity of Inquiry: Popular Science Monthly Illustrations of the Logic of Science Series, 1877?78 -- $t4 The Law of Mind, Association, and Sympathy: Monist ??Cosmology Series?? and Association Writings, 1890s -- $t5 Critical Common-sensism, 1900s -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aHow can sincere, well-meaning people unintentionally perpetuate discrimination based on race, sex, sexuality, or other socio-political factors? To address this question, Lara Trout engages a neglected dimension of Charles S. Peirce's philosophy - human embodiment - in order to highlight the compatibility between Peirce's ideas and contemporary work in social criticism. This compatibility, which has been neglected in both Peircean and social criticism scholarship, emerges when the body is fore-grounded among the affective dimensions of Peirce's philosophy (including feeling, emotion, belief, doubt, instinct, and habit). Trout explains unintentional discrimination by situating Peircean affectivity within a post-Darwinian context, using the work of contemporary neuroscientist Antonio Damasio to facilitate this contextual move. Since children are vulnerable, naïve, and dependent upon their caretakers for survival, they must trust their caretaker's testimony about reality. This dependency, coupled with societal norms that reinforce historically dominant perspectives (such as being heterosexual, male, middle-class, and/or white), fosters the internalization of discriminatory habits that function non-consciously in adulthood. The Politics of Survival brings Peirce and social criticism into conversation. On the one hand, Peircean cognition, epistemology, phenomenology, and metaphysics dovetail with social critical insights into the inter-relationships among body and mind, emotion and reason, self and society. Moreover, Peirce's epistemological ideal of an infinitely inclusive community of inquiry into knowledge and reality implies a repudiation of exclusionary prejudice. On the other hand, work in feminism and race theory illustrates how the application of Peirce's infinitely inclusive communal ideal can be undermined by non-conscious habits of exclusion internalized in childhood by members belonging to historically dominant groups, such as the economically privileged, heterosexuals, men, and whites. Trout offers a Peircean response to this application problem that both acknowledges the "blind spots" of non-conscious discrimination and recommends a communally situated network of remedies including agapic love, critical common-sensism, scientific method, and self-control. 410 0$aAmerican philosophy series. 606 $aDiscrimination$xSocial aspects 606 $aPrejudices 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDiscrimination$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aPrejudices. 676 $a194 700 $aTrout$b Lara, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01004179 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910324046103321 996 $aThe politics of survival$92306398 997 $aUNINA