Pragmatism, Postmodernism and the Future of Philosophy (Routledge American Philosophy (Paperback))
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (743 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415939682 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorJohn J. . He has authored and edited numerous books including GenealogicalPragmatism and Pragmatism and Classical AmericanPhilosophy, and is Chief Editor of the RoutledgeAmerican Philosophy Series. Stuhr is Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University and head of the department
Stuhr is Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University and head of the department. John J. . He has authored and edited numerous books including GenealogicalPragmatism and Pragmatism and Classical AmericanPhilosophy, and is Chief Editor of the RoutledgeAmerican Philosophy Series
Provocative and challenging - but is it realistic? John H. Teeple John Stuhr has quickly become one of my favorite contemporary interpreters of the pragmatist tradition. This book (as well as his earlier "Genealogical Pragmatism") has deepened my interest and confidence in pragmatism. Stuhr in fact makes it look easy - pragmatism simply is the most honest option.What really strikes me as unusual or compelling or valuable is Stuhr's insistence that pragmatism be a living philosophy. This means that it must be alive - responsive to its environment, open to change and evolution - and that that it must be liveable, or responsive to the real needs of real people. Stuhr'. A profoundly thoughtful, moving, demanding book A Customer This is a remarkable book and it is the best book of philosophy that I have read in ages. It features Stuhr's characteristically engaging, passionate, direct writing style--a style that is very learned but manages to be immediate and accessible and even clever and fun. Beginning with Emerson's call that we live prospectively rather than retrospectively, that we live and think for the future rather than the past, that we deveop "an original relation to the universe," Stuhr weaves together pragmatist and postmodernist themes into a philosophy distinctively original and compelling. This vision in its so. A Customer said Outstanding, well-written, and original. This book is a tour de force, and it cements the author's place in the forefront of contemporary philosophers working out of pragmatic and continental traditions. The scholarship is impeccable, as the author displays command of figures from Emerson, James, and Dewey, to Adorno, Deleuze, and Foucault. But the two things that are most striking about this book are its originality and the beautful, moving character of its prose. It is creative and very well-written. And unlike so much philosophy it is not simply a book about philosophers but rather a book about how we might live after pragmatism and post
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