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Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind

Author : Norman Geras
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789607132
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind written by Norman Geras and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Humankind

Author : Timothy Morton
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 178873100X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Humankind written by Timothy Morton and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Design and Solidarity

Author : Rafi Segal
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231555342
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Design and Solidarity written by Rafi Segal and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times of crisis, mutual aid becomes paramount. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, new forms of sharing had gained momentum to redress precarity and stark economic inequality. Today, a diverse array of mutualistic organizations seek to fundamentally restructure housing, care, labor, food, and more. Yet design, art, and architecture play a key role in shaping these initiatives, fulfilling their promise of solidarity, and ensuring that these values endure. In this book, artist Marisa Morán Jahn and architect Rafi Segal converse about the transformative potential of mutualism and design with leading thinkers and practitioners: Mercedes Bidart, Arturo Escobar, Michael Hardt, Greg Lindsay, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Ai-jen Poo, and Trebor Scholz. Together, they consider how design inspires, invigorates, and sustains contemporary forms of mutualism—including platform cooperatives, digital-first communities, emerging currencies, mutual aid, care networks, social-change movements, and more. From these dialogues emerge powerful visions of futures guided by communal self-determination and collective well-being.

Conversations About Reflexivity

Author : Margaret S. Archer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135268606
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Conversations About Reflexivity written by Margaret S. Archer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " 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.

Beauty, Responsibility, and Power

Author : Leszek Koczanowicz
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401211620
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Beauty, Responsibility, and Power written by Leszek Koczanowicz and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the framework of pragmatist aesthetics, offering a comprehensive panorama of the ways and fields in which pragmatist aesthetics ties in with vital social and ethical problems of modernity. Most of the contributors refer to the model propounded by Richard Shusterman. Following in Dewey’s footsteps, Shusterman has elaborated and expanded his concept, adding new dimensions to it. The most important supplement is the idea of aesthetic experience being constituted by our bodiliness. In somaesthetics, pragmatism has acquired a new dimension – a fully developed, comprehensive aesthetic theory. Pragmatist aesthetics with its essential notion of the body engages in critical dialogue with many key concepts of modernity which locate the body in social and cultural frameworks. The articles collected in this volume illustrate the complex range of pragmatist aesthetics and its impact on the understanding of crucial issues in social and moral philosophy.

Richard Rorty

Author : Michael Bacon
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739114988
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Richard Rorty written by Michael Bacon and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Rorty is both the most prominent and the most provocative recent exponent of pragmatism. This book offers a sympathetic reconstruction of Rorty's account of pragmatism, in which the aspiration to underwrite inquiry by reference to standards outside of any particular community is given up in favor of a view of inquiry as answerable exclusively to the norms implicit within contingent human practices. Rorty hopes that pragmatism so conceived can help effect a transition towards what he calls an "anti-authoritarian" society, a society in which responsibility is owed solely to one's fellow citizens. The book examines the relationship between pragmatism and political liberalism, a form of liberalism which sets aside discussion of truth and value and seeks instead to derive a constitutional settlement in which citizens can freely pursue their individual projects and purposes. It presents a critical assessment of Rorty's ideal of a liberal utopia, inhabited by strong poets and liberal ironists. By focusing on the relationship between the philosophical and political, the book argues that Rorty provides a compelling statement of pragmatism, containing insights that command the attention of contemporary liberal philosophers. Through textual analysis and reconstruction, it argues that while Rorty's account needs to be amended at several points, it remains a powerful and attractive one, and not the incoherent and pernicious folly that critics often take it to be. Well researched, lively, and succinct, Richard Rorty: Pragmatism and Political Liberalism is ideally suited to specialists and graduate students in philosophy and political theory.

Materialist Ethics and Life-Value

Author : Jeff Noonan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773539646
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Materialist Ethics and Life-Value written by Jeff Noonan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely re-thinking of "the good life" that reveals its grounds in human life-requirements and identifies key social threats to happiness.

Norman Geras’s Political Thought from Marxism to Human Rights

Author : Mark Cowling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319740482
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Norman Geras’s Political Thought from Marxism to Human Rights written by Mark Cowling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical account of the main controversies involving Norman Geras, one of the key modern political thinkers. It moves from his youthful Trotskyism on to his book on Rosa Luxemburg, then his classic account of Marx and human nature, and his highly regarded discussion of Marx and justice. Following this, Geras tried to elaborate a Marxist theory of justice, which involved taking on-board aspects of liberalism. Next he attacked the post modernism of Laclau and Mouffe and criticised Rorty’s pragmatism, and then elaborated a contract of mutual indifference from a detailed study of the Holocaust. Lastly he wrote a book on human rights and humanitarian intervention, defending the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Cowling varies from exposition and admiration, to ideas about how Geras’s work should be interpreted, to criticism of his Trotskyism and of his support for the invasion of Iraq. The book will appeal to readers interested in Norman Geras and Marxism in particular, and social and political theory in general.

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521367813
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity written by Richard Rorty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-02-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable on a private level, although it cannot advance the social or political goals of liberalism. In fact Rorty believes that it is literature not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. A truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. The book has a characteristically wide range of reference from philosophy through social theory to literary criticism. It confirms Rorty's status as a uniquely subtle theorist, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike.

The Oxford Handbook of the Human Essence

Author : Martijn van Zomeren
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190247576
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Human Essence written by Martijn van Zomeren and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in social-psychological theorizing and research suggest that humans can be viewed as biological beings as well as cultural creatures, rational reasoners as well as emotional enigmas, moral minds as well as amoral agents. Edited by Martijn van Zomeren and John F. Dovidio, this handbook expertly articulates both what social psychology can tell us about the human essence, and the astonishing range of perspectives reflected within this field.

Getting what You Want?

Author : Robert Brecher
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415129516
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Getting what You Want? written by Robert Brecher and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting What You Want? offers a critique of liberal morality and an analysis of its understanding of the individual as a 'wanting thing'.

Getting What You Want?

Author : Bob Brecher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134793839
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Getting What You Want? written by Bob Brecher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Richard Rorty

Author : Richard Rumana
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042014404
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Richard Rorty written by Richard Rumana and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Radical Philosophy

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Philosophy written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Asian American Dreams

Author : Helen Zia
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374527365
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Asian American Dreams written by Helen Zia and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... about the transformation of Asian Americans ... into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society."--Jacket.

Gadamer: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Chris Lawn
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826484611
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Gadamer: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Chris Lawn and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.

The Idea of Human Rights

Author : Michael J. Perry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195353803
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Human Rights written by Michael J. Perry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-08 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a 1988 trip to El Salvador, Michael J. Perry's new book is a personal and scholarly exploration of the idea of human rights. Perry is one of our nation's leading authorities on the relation of morality, including religious morality, to politics and law. He seeks, in this book, to disentangle the complex idea of human rights by way of four probing and interrelated essays. * The initial essay, which is animated by Perry's skepticism about the capacity of any secular morality to offer a coherent account of the idea of human rights, suggests that the first part of the idea of human rights--the premise that every human being is "sacred" or "inviolable"--is inescapably religious. * Responding to recent criticism of "rights talk", Perry explicates, in his second essay, the meaning and value of talk about human rights. * In his third essay, Perry asks a fundamental question about human rights: Are they universal? In addressing this question, he disaggregates and criticizes several different varieties of "moral relativism" and then considers the implications of these different relativist positions for claims about human rights. * Perry turns to another fundamental question about human rights in his final essay: Are they absolute? He concludes that even if no human rights, understood as moral rights, are absolute or unconditional, some human rights, understood as international legal rights, are--and indeed, should be--absolute. In the introduction, Perry writes: "Of all the influential--indeed, formative--moral ideas to take center stage in the twentieth century, like democracy and socialism, the idea of human rights (which, again, in one form or another, is an old idea) is, for many, the most difficult. It is the most difficult in the sense that it is, for many, the hardest of the great moral ideas to integrate, the hardest to square, with the reigning intellectual assumptions of the age, especially what Bernard Williams has called 'Nietzsche's thought': 'There is not only no God, but no metaphysical order of any kind....' For those who accept 'Nietzsche's thought', can the idea of human rights possibly be more than a kind of aesthetic preference? In a culture in which it was widely believed that there is no God or metaphysical order of any kind, on what basis, if any, could the idea of human rights long survive?" The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries will appeal to students of many disciplines, including (but not limited to) law, philosophy, religion, and politics.