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Values, Valuations, and Axiological Norms in Richard Rorty's Neopragmatism sympathetically discusses Richard Rorty's neopragmatist philosophy. This book brings together a range of interpretations and possibilities on a variety of humanistic topics, including philosophy, literature, culture, film, economics, social issues, politics, and more. Skowroński involves the work of philosophers such as Kant, Dewey, Santayana, and Kołakowski as he delves into various philosophical problems using the lens of Rorty's neopragmatist thought.

Preliminary Material -- SANTAYANA AND THE AVANT-GARDE: VISUAL ARTS IN THE CONTEXT OF DEMOCRACY, NORMS, LIBERTY, AND SOCIAL PROGRESS -- STYLE AS THE TOOL OF TYRANNY IN GOMBROWICZ: AN AVANT-GARDIST AS A FORERUNNER OF POSTMODERNISM -- FACIAL IMAGES AS A WAY FOR THE ARTICULATION OF VALUES IN THE AVANT-GARDE'S AESTHETICS OF DEFORMATION. ANOTHER PRELUDE TO POSTMODERNISM -- THE INTERRELATION BETWEEN POLITICS AND AESTHETICS IN CLASSSIC AMERICAN PRAGMATISM: DEMOCRACY AND AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN WILLIAM JAMES -- AESTHETIC PERSUASION AND POLITICAL COMPULSION: LITERARY PHILOSOPHY IN LIGHT OF RICHARD RORTY'S IDEAS OF DEMOCRATIC LIBERALISM AND CULTURAL POLITICS -- FINAL REMARKS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- VALUE INQUIRY BOOK SERIES.

George Santayana (1863-1952), a Spanish-American philosopher, is an influential personage on the cultural stage in English- and Spanish-speaking countries. His numerous books and papers on topics as varied as epistemology, ontology, aesthetics, ethics, anthropology, value theory, and American studies, along with his best-selling novel, his sophisticated poetry, and his famous autobiography, make him a vivid and profound source of reflection on the history of American and European thought, as

While rooted in careful study of Mead's original writings and transcribed lectures and the historical context in which that work was carried out, the papers in this volume have brought Mead's work to bear on contemporary issues in metaphysics, epistemology, cognitive science, and social and political philosophy

Under Any Sky: Contemporary Readings of George Santayana is a testament to the cross-cultural relevance of the work of one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century, George Santayana (1863-1952, birth name Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana). A list of geographic origins of the twenty-two contributions contained in this volume indicates the transatlantic cultural diversity of scholarly representation: scholars variously hailing from Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Slo

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION /Larry Hickman -- EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND ART /John Ryder -- AESTHETICS AS SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY /James Campbell -- THE 'QUALITY' OF PHILOSOPHY: ON THE AESTHETIC MATRIX OF DEWEY'S PRAGMATISM /Robert E. Innis -- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL POWERS IN JOHN DEWEY'S AESTHETICS /Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński -- THE DEWEYAN AESTHETIC OF CHARLES IVES /Richard Anthony Spurgeon Hall -- QUALITATIVE THOUGHT, THINKING THROUGH THE BODY, AND EMBODIED THINKING: DEWEY AND HIS SUCCESSORS /Sebastian Stankiewicz -- JOHN DEWEY AND THE ETHICS OF RECOGNITION /Ramón del Castillo -- DEWEY'S VALUE THEORY AND THE ANALYTIC TRADITION OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY /Ángel M. Faerna -- SANTAYANA'S CRITIQUE OF DEWEY'S PHILOSOPHY: PRAGMATIC MORALISM AND THE POLITICIZATION OF PHILOSOPHY /Matthew Caleb Flamm -- DEWEY'S THEORY OF VALUES /Hugh McDonald -- SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS IN DEWEY'S PEDAGOGY /Larry Hickman -- DEWEY'S SCIENCE: A TRANSACTIVE MODEL OF RESEARCH PROCESSES /Philipp Dorstewitz -- A HEDGEHOG WHO THOUGHT HE WAS A FOX: DEWEY BETWIXT THE ONE AND MANY-WORLD PHILOSOPHIES /Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen -- TEACHING RELIGION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF DEWEY'S IDEAS ON RELIGION AND EDUCATION /Walter Feinberg -- JOHN DEWEY AND JOSIAH ROYCE IN DIALOGUE ON THE INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY /Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley -- JOHN DEWEY AND FRIEDRICH VON HAYEK ON INDIVIDUALISM AND FREEDOM /Maciej Kassner -- DEWEY'S ETHICAL-POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AS RESOURCE IN TODAY'S GLOBAL CRISES AND AS A GUIDE TO A POST-IDEOLOGICAL POLITICS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY /Gregory Fernando Pappas -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- VALUE INQUIRY BOOK SERIES.

American and European Values: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives is a collection of essays by contemporary scholars considering key aspects of intersection and encounter between American and European values in the contemporary world. The truly international makeup of twenty-one contributors enlivens the book's theme in surprising, and frequently edifying ways. The authors consider, in places Other revealing frankness, the cultural sensibilities unique to America and Europe, key historic

The edited collection Rorty and Beyond assesses and moves beyond Rorty's legacy, bringing together leading international philosophers. The collection covers diverse territory, from his views about what we may hope for to his personal character, and everything in between.