Solidarity In The Conversation Of Humankind

Author : Norman Geras
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789607130

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Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind by Norman Geras Pdf

What are the sources of solidarity? Do universalist motives have an important place among them? And how are they related to arguments about human nature and about truth? In this new book, Norman Geras engages with the work of Richard Rorty to explore the paradoxes of a liberalism which rejects any determinate view of human nature. He begins by examining Rorty's thesis concerning rescuer behavior during the Holocaust. Measuring it against existing research on the subject and the testimony of rescuers themselves, Geras questions Rorty's use of their moral example as a challenge to universalist assumptions. He then considers some of the problems in Rorty's anti-essentialism: his shifting usages of "human nature"; the paradoxical plea for extensive forms of solidarity on the basis of parochial communitarian premises; the relationship of pragmatist notions of truth to issues of justice; and the project of a democratic, would-be "humanist" utopia grounded only on contingencies. Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind is an imagined dialogue with Rorty-influential, eloquent and unorthodox champion of a human radical liberalism.

Author : Timothy Morton
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781788731003

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Humankind by Timothy Morton Pdf

A radical call for solidarity between humans and non-humans What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed object-oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites us to consider this philosophical issue as eminently political. In our relationship with nonhumans, we decide the fate of our humanity. Becoming human, claims Morton, actually means creating a network of kindness and solidarity with nonhuman beings, in the name of a broader understanding of reality that both includes and overcomes the notion of species. Negotiating the politics of humanity is the first crucial step in reclaiming the upper scales of ecological coexistence and resisting corporations like Monsanto and the technophilic billionaires who would rob us of our kinship with people beyond our species.

Author : Margaret S. Archer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135268602

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Conversations About Reflexivity by Margaret S. Archer Pdf

" Reflexivity" is defined as the regular exercise of the mental ability, shared by all normal people, to consider themselves in relation to their (social) contexts and vice versa. In addition to this sociological interest, it allows us to hold idle or trivial internal conversations. Focussing fully on this phenomenon, this book discusses the three main questions associated with this subject in detail. Where does the ability to be "reflexive" comes from? What part do our internal reflexive deliberations play in designing the courses of action we take: subordinate to habitual action or not? Is "reflexivity" a homogeneous practice for all people and invariant over history? In addressing these questions, contributors engage critically with the most relevant studies by luminaries such as G.H Mead, C.S. Pierce, Habermas, Luhmann, Beck, Giddens and Bourdieu. Most contributors are leading Pragmatists or Critical Realists, associated with the "Reflexivity Forum" an informal, international and inter-disciplinary group. This combination of reference to influential writers of the past, and the best of modern theory has produced a fascinating book that is essential reading for all students with a serious interest in social theory or critical realism.

Author : Jeff Noonan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773539648

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Materialist Ethics and Life-Value by Jeff Noonan Pdf

A timely re-thinking of "the good life" that reveals its grounds in human life-requirements and identifies key social threats to happiness.

Author : Richard Rumana
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9042014407

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Richard Rorty by Richard Rumana Pdf

Demonstrating Richard Rorty's breadth of scholarship and his influence on diverse issues across the social sciences and humanities, this comprehensive bibliography contains 1,165 citations. A unique reference work on neo-pragmatism, this bibliography is essential for anyone researching Rorty's work and its impact on philosophy, literature, the arts, religion, the social sciences, politics, and education.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015078934307

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Radical Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Brecher
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415129510

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Getting what You Want? by Robert Brecher Pdf

Getting What You Want? offers a critique of liberal morality and an analysis of its understanding of the individual as a 'wanting thing'.

Author : Bob Brecher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134793839

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Getting What You Want? by Bob Brecher Pdf

Getting What You Want? is the first book which calls for the collapse of liberal morality. Bob Brecher claims that it is wrong to think that morality is simply rooted in what people want. He explains that in our consumerist society, we make the assumption that getting 'what people want' is our natural goal, and that this 'natural goal' is a necessarily good one. We see that whether it is a matter of pornography or getting married - if people want it, then that's that. But is this really a good thing? Getting What You Want? offers a critique of liberal morality and an analysis of its understanding of the individual as a 'wanting thing'. Brecher boldly argues that the Anglo-American liberalism cannot give an adequate account of moral reasoning and action, nor any justification of moral principles or demands. Ultimately, Brecher shows us that the whole idea of liberal morality is not only incoherent but unattainable.

Author : Steven Lukes
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781784786489

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Liberals and Cannibals by Steven Lukes Pdf

Can the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics be resolved within the framework of liberalism? How is liberal society to interpret the diversity of morals? Is pluralism the appropriate response? How does pluralism differ from the widely condemned ethnocentric relativism-"liberalism for the Liberals, cannibalism for the cannibals"? Confronting liberal thought with its own limitations, Steven Lukes' work is more relevant than ever. While recognizing the dangers of moral imperialism, Lukes argues that a relativist position based on identifying clearly distinct cultural and moral communities is incoherent. Drawing on work in anthropology and philosophy, he examines the nature of social justice, the politics of identity and human rights theory.

Author : Joseph L. Esposito
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739173633

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Pragmatism, Politics, and Perversity by Joseph L. Esposito Pdf

The political project of pragmatism has focused primarily on its defense of democracy as the best political system to maintain and improve human well-being over lifetimes and generations. Pragmatism Politics and Perversity: Democracy and the American Party Battle describes this project of Peirce, Dewey, Hook, and Rorty, and combines it with Charles Beard's study of the party battle as the most determinative influence upon American democracy. The book updates and confirms Beard's hypothesis that the history of the party battle is a chronicle of perverse schemes and self-inflicted wounds - the most salient to date being the American Civil War - because it reflects a ceaselessly disruptive contest over the creation of two largely incompatible political states: nation state and market state. The book supports its thesis with detailed historical accounts of the formation of the Constitution and early federal judiciary, the sedition trials and political schemes of the 1790s, the frustration of market state Whigs to attract white working-class voters by exploiting their religious identities, the reckless machinations of Whig Republicans in precipitating a national crisis over a contrived threat of oligarchy and white slavery, and the ideological oscillations of the Supreme Court from market state to nation state jurisprudence and back again. To reduce perversity in political rhetoric and free up pragmatic democratic practices, the book proposes a robust neo-Madisonian view of free speech, where political actors and their surrogates are not only free to speak and write, but are also obligated to explain, retract, and revise what they have said and written.

Author : David Rondel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190680688

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Pragmatist Egalitarianism by David Rondel Pdf

Pragmatist Egalitarianism' argues that a deep impasse plagues philosophical egalitarianism. It sets forth a conception of equality rooted in American pragmatist thought-specifically William James, John Dewey, and Richard Rorty-that successfully mediates that impasse.

Author : Victor Anderson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791436373

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Pragmatic Theology by Victor Anderson Pdf

Argues that while contemporary American philosophies and philosophers of religion are proclaiming the end of theology, a neopragmatism has arrived to fill the void in meaning and moral fulfillment to which theology once supplied answers.

Author : Norman Geras
Publisher : Verso
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1859842291

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The Contract of Mutual Indifference by Norman Geras Pdf

Geras focuses on the figure of the bystander - to the destruction of the Jews of Europe, as well as to more recent atrocities - to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active response at persecution and great suffering.

Author : Chris Lawn
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826484611

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Gadamer: A Guide for the Perplexed by Chris Lawn Pdf

Providing an account of Gadamer's hermeneutics, this book includes an exposition and analysis of such key terms as 'fusion of horizons', 'effective historical consciousness' and 'the logic of question and answer', as well as Gadamer's redefinition of such concepts as 'prejudice', 'authority' and 'tradition'.

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108488457

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On Philosophy and Philosophers by Richard Rorty Pdf

"Philosophers suffer from a peculiar occupational hazard; people are always coming up and asking them just what it is that they do and how they do it. This is not the sort of question that biologists or economists or musicians get asked; people know, pretty well, what they do, and they may or may not be interested in the details. But a philosopher is different - it is very hard to imagine just what he does with his time"--