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This is a book about pragmatism, intercultural philosophy, and ethics that attempts to bring to the fore the variations on the ethical and intercultural life of pragmatism, based on readings of William James, John Dewey, Richard Rorty, and Roberto Mangabeira Unger. To this foursome is added the leading feminist thinker of our age, Luce Irigaray

In June 2004, Richard Rorty delivered a lecture at the House of Artists in Tehran. Having been invited by an Iranian philosopher, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Rorty spoke about the ideas of post-democracy & human rights' culture from his neo-pragmatist & antifoundationalist position. In a short piece on Richard Rorty, his Iranian host, Ramin Jahanbegloo, later pointed out Rorty's special relation to intercultural thinking. He pointed to his positive capability to understand & to think of the paradigm of interculturality. Jahanbegloo was suggesting that it is in Rorty's suspicions about the universal validity of his own culture that we can recognize his "intercultural" element. In other words, Jahanbegloo was convinced in his paper that this feature in Rorty's thought opens up the possibility of (inter)cultural dialogue. Adapted from the source document.

Contributors to this volume consider the implications of 'the Age of Breath': a spiritual shift in human awareness to the needs of the other figured through breathing. Awareness of the breath allows us to attend to our bodies and the bodies of others, to animals, nature, other cultures, oppressed minorities, and the other of sexual difference. As a way to connect body and spirit, self and other, nature and culture, and East and West, breathing emerges as the significant theological and philosophical gesture of our time. Philosophy has too often cut off metaphysical thought from this living, br

Shame, Gender Violence, and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice draws from contemporary, concrete atrocities against women and marginalized communities to re-conceptualize moral shame and to set moral shame apart from dimensions of subordination, humiliation, and disgrace. The interdisciplinary collection starts with a contribution from a Yazidi-survivor of genocidal and sexual violence, whose case brings together core themes: gender, ethnic and religious identity, and violence and shame. Further accounts of shame and gendered violence in this collection take the reader to other and equally disturbing accounts of lesser-known atrocities from around the world. Although shame is sometimes posited as an inevitable companion to human life, editors Lenart Skof and She M. Hawke situate the discussion in the theoretical landscape of shame, and the contributors challenge this concept through fields as diverse as law, journalism, activism, philosophy, theology, ecofeminism, and gender and cultural studies. Their discussion of gendered shame makes room for it to be both a negative and a redemptive concept. Combining junior and senior scholarship, this collection examines power relations in the cycle of shame and violence