Deconstruction and Reconstruction
The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume Two
Published on 1. January 2004
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Paperback/Softback
269 pages
978-90-420-1681-1 (ISBN)
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The essays in this volume are from the Second Conference of the Central European Pragmatist Forum, held in Krakow, Poland in 2002. Written by prominent specialists in pragmatism and American philosophy from the United States and Europe, they survey contemporary thinking on classical and contemporary pragmatism, social and political theory, ethics, aesthetics, experience, knowledge, rationality, metaphysics, and the application of pragmatist thought in contemporary Europe.
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Language
English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Brill
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
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395 gr
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978-90-420-1681-1 (9789042016811)
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John Ryder is Professor of Philosophy and the Director of International Programs, State University of New York. Recent publications include Interpreting America: Russian and Soviet Studies of the History of American Thought, The Philosophical Writings of Cadwallader Colden (co-edited with Scott Pratt), and The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy (co-edited with Armen Marsoobian).
Krystyna Wilkoszewska is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Jagiellonian University, Kracow, Poland. She is the author and editor of several books on aesthetics, including Art as the Rhythm of Life. Reconstruction of John Dewey's Philosophy of Art, and numerous articles in contemporary pragmatist aesthetics.
Krystyna Wilkoszewska is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Jagiellonian University, Kracow, Poland. She is the author and editor of several books on aesthetics, including Art as the Rhythm of Life. Reconstruction of John Dewey's Philosophy of Art, and numerous articles in contemporary pragmatist aesthetics.
Content
Foreword by Hans Joas
Preface by John Ryder and Krystyna Wilkoszewska
ONE John J. McDERMOTT: Transiency and Amelioration: Revisited
TOWARD DEMOCRACY
TWO Gert-Ruediger WEGMARSHAUS: Cooperation, Education, and Community: Reconstructing John Dewey's Conception of Democracy as a Way of Life
THREE Martin KILANOWSKI: Individual and Community: Dewey's Rejection of Sharp Distinctions in Social and Political Philosophy
FOUR John R. SHOOK: Deliberative Democracy and Moral Pluralism: Dewey vs. Rawls and Habermas
FIVE James CAMPBELL: Institutions and Their Reconstruction
SIX Mark LOVAS: Modules, Norms, and Justice: Three Organizing Principles and the Need for Social Criticism
SEVEN Michael ELDRIDGE: Social Reconstruction and Philosophy
ETHICS
EIGHT Leszek KOCZANOWICZ: Sources of Solidarity: Is Non-foundational Ethics Irrational?
NINE Paul B. THOMPSON: Pragmatism, Practical and Discourse Ethics
AESTHETICS
TEN Anthony J. GRAYBOSCH: American Beauty
ELEVEN Leif OESTMAN: The Client as Designer: Design in the Mirror of Pragmatist Philosophy
TWELVE Armen T. MARSOOBIAN: Is There a Pragmatist Aesthetics?
THIRTEEN Krystyna WILKOSZEWSKA: How to Build a Pragmatist Aesthetics
SELF, REASON, KNOWLEDGE
FOURTEEN Hans-Peter KRUEGER: The Specifications of Human Beings: A Comparison of John Dewey's and Helmuth Plessner's Approaches
FIFTEEN Lyubov BUGAEVA: Santayana's Imaginative Knowledge: Presenting an Object
SIXTEEN Emil VISNOVSKY: Dewey's Reconstruction of Rationality
SEVENTEEN Jane SKINNER: Deconstructors and Reconstructors of the Pragmatist Project: An Educational Viewpoint
EIGHTEEN Igor HANZEL: Juergen Habermas' Construction and Deconstruction of the World
NINETEEN Vincent COLAPIETRO: Social Practice and Pragmatic Inquiry: Dewey and Bourdieu
FACING ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
TWENTY Tadeusz SZUBKA: The Theory of Meaning and Pragmatism: Michael Dummett and John Dewey
TWENTY ONE Piotr GUTOWSKI: The Philosophy of John Dewey and the Problem of Realism
TWENTY TWO Mateusz OLEKSY: The Battle Against Metaphysics: Deconstruction and Deflation on the Common Track
TWENTY THREE John RYDER: American Philosophy in Its Place
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
Preface by John Ryder and Krystyna Wilkoszewska
ONE John J. McDERMOTT: Transiency and Amelioration: Revisited
TOWARD DEMOCRACY
TWO Gert-Ruediger WEGMARSHAUS: Cooperation, Education, and Community: Reconstructing John Dewey's Conception of Democracy as a Way of Life
THREE Martin KILANOWSKI: Individual and Community: Dewey's Rejection of Sharp Distinctions in Social and Political Philosophy
FOUR John R. SHOOK: Deliberative Democracy and Moral Pluralism: Dewey vs. Rawls and Habermas
FIVE James CAMPBELL: Institutions and Their Reconstruction
SIX Mark LOVAS: Modules, Norms, and Justice: Three Organizing Principles and the Need for Social Criticism
SEVEN Michael ELDRIDGE: Social Reconstruction and Philosophy
ETHICS
EIGHT Leszek KOCZANOWICZ: Sources of Solidarity: Is Non-foundational Ethics Irrational?
NINE Paul B. THOMPSON: Pragmatism, Practical and Discourse Ethics
AESTHETICS
TEN Anthony J. GRAYBOSCH: American Beauty
ELEVEN Leif OESTMAN: The Client as Designer: Design in the Mirror of Pragmatist Philosophy
TWELVE Armen T. MARSOOBIAN: Is There a Pragmatist Aesthetics?
THIRTEEN Krystyna WILKOSZEWSKA: How to Build a Pragmatist Aesthetics
SELF, REASON, KNOWLEDGE
FOURTEEN Hans-Peter KRUEGER: The Specifications of Human Beings: A Comparison of John Dewey's and Helmuth Plessner's Approaches
FIFTEEN Lyubov BUGAEVA: Santayana's Imaginative Knowledge: Presenting an Object
SIXTEEN Emil VISNOVSKY: Dewey's Reconstruction of Rationality
SEVENTEEN Jane SKINNER: Deconstructors and Reconstructors of the Pragmatist Project: An Educational Viewpoint
EIGHTEEN Igor HANZEL: Juergen Habermas' Construction and Deconstruction of the World
NINETEEN Vincent COLAPIETRO: Social Practice and Pragmatic Inquiry: Dewey and Bourdieu
FACING ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
TWENTY Tadeusz SZUBKA: The Theory of Meaning and Pragmatism: Michael Dummett and John Dewey
TWENTY ONE Piotr GUTOWSKI: The Philosophy of John Dewey and the Problem of Realism
TWENTY TWO Mateusz OLEKSY: The Battle Against Metaphysics: Deconstruction and Deflation on the Common Track
TWENTY THREE John RYDER: American Philosophy in Its Place
About the Editors and Contributors
Index