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  • Pragmatism
    William James
    Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking is an American philosophy classic by the great American writer and philosopher, William James.Pragmatism is a philosophical approach that seeks to both define truth and resolve metaphysical issues. William James demonstrates an application of his method in the form of a simple story:A live squirrel supposed to be clinging on ...
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    15,66 €

  • Toward a Pragmatist Philosophy of the Humanities
    Sami Pihlström
    Develops a pragmatist approach to the philosophy of the humanities, interpreting history, literature, and religion in terms of pragmatic realism.Humanist scholars often feel the need to defend the humanities. The value of humanistic research is sometimes challenged, as the cultural 'reality' investigated by disciplines such as history, literary studies, and theology may seem un...
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    47,18 €

  • Full Responsibility
    Steven G. Smith
    Explores the basic forms of responsibility that we willingly assume and the collaborative fulfillment that we find in each.Starting with an appreciation of the practical realizations that move us to assume responsibility, Full Responsibility develops an ontologically-grounded model of different forms of responsibility and the challenges and fulfillments found in each. Special a...
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    47,37 €

  • The power of pragmatism
    This book makes the case for a pragmatist approach to the practice of social inquiry and knowledge production. Through diverse examples from multiple disciplines, contributors explore the power of pragmatism to inform a practice of inquiry that is democratic, community-centred, problem-oriented and experimental. Drawing from both classical and neo-pragmatist perspectives, the b...
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    44,05 €

  • Representing Blackness, The Marcus Mosiah Garvey Multimedia Museum
    Donna E McFarlane-Nembhard
    Dr Donna E. McFarlane Curator and Director of the Marcus Mosiah Garvey Multimedia Museum (2003-2017) carefully reconstructs the history of Jamaica’s museums, and the world of new museum studies centered on Jamaica’s First National Hero life’s work and philosophy. The timelessness of Garvey and The Universal Negro Improvement (UNIA) is examined through exhibitions, library holdi...
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    28,95 €

  • THINK STRAIGHT
    Darius Foroux
    I know something about you without knowing you. I bet you spend A LOT of time in your head. You know, thinking, worrying, stressing, freaking out -- call it whatever you want. I call it a preoccupied mind. And with what?99% of your thoughts are useless.William James, once the leading psychologist in America, and one of the founders of the philosophical school of pragmatism, put...
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    12,10 €

  • Human Landscapes
    Roberta Dreon
    The first work to offer a comprehensive pragmatist anthropology focusing on sensibility, habits, and human experience as contingently yet irreversibly enlanguaged.Human Landscapes works out a pragmatist anthropology which the Classical Pragmatists never put together in a comprehensive form-despite the many insights on the topic to be found in Dewey’s, James’s, and Mead’s texts....
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    47,21 €

  • God the Created
    Benjamin J. Chicka
    Develops a creative and provocative new model of God that brings together insights from both process theology and ground-of-being theology.In God the Created, Benjamin Chicka develops a method of inquiry and program for theology that he labels 'pragmatic constructive realism.' While influenced most heavily by American pragmatism, especially that of Charles S. Peirce, Chicka’s m...
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    47,29 €

  • The Humanistic Background of Science
    Philipp Frank
    The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.Philipp Frank (1884-1966) was an influential philosopher of science, public intellectual, and Harvard educator whose last book, The Humanistic Background of Science, is finally available. Never published in...
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    49,32 €

  • Pragmatist Ethics
    James Jakób Liszka
    Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.Grounded in American pragmatism, Pragmatist Ethics proposes a rethinking of ethics. Rather than looking to the good-a concept for which consensus is difficult to achi...
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    47,50 €

  • The Cultural Power of Personal Objects
    Jared Kemling
    Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they are treated (whether metaphorically or actually) as 'persons,' or as objects with '...
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    50,55 €

  • El advenimieno del yo
    Georges Gusdorf
    El advenimiento del yo es un acontecimiento mayor en la historia de la cultura de Occidente y se manifiesta en la vasta difusión de una abundante literatura de la intimidad en la cual el autor escribe sobre sí mismo, pero también en la invención del espejo, en la aparición del autorretrato, del tocador y del jardín inglés. La reivindicación del yo personal se opone decididament...
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    11,39 €

  • Habits of Whiteness
    Terrance Macmullan
    Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction, second edition, offers a revised and updated look at the concept of whiteness in the United States. Lauded when it was first published and even more relevant today, Habits of Whiteness offers a distinctive way to talk about race and racism by focusing on racial habits and how to change them.Author Terrance MacMullan examines ho...
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    42,69 €

  • The Critical Margolis
    Joseph Margolis
    This critical reader covers Joseph Margolis’s controversial views of mind, truth, science, and reality, along with his revolutionary theories about culture, art, language, personhood, and morality.Pragmatism’s revival since 1980 can be credited to several thinkers, among them the longtime professor of philosophy at Temple University, Joseph Margolis. The Critical Margolis colle...
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    52,48 €

  • Religion within the Limits of History Alone
    Demian Wheeler
    Shows that pragmatic historicism is a significant intellectual tradition in the history of American religious and philosophical thought.Among the greatest challenges facing religious thinkers today is that created by historicism, the notion that human beings and their myriad understandings of reality are utterly historical, conditioned by contingent circumstances and tied to pa...
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    52,71 €

  • John Dewey’s Later Logical Theory
    James Scott Johnston
    A study of the development of Dewey’s logic from 1916-1937 leading up to his final 1938 book on the subject.By 1916, Dewey had written two volumes on logical theory. Yet, in light of what he would write in his 1938 Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, much remained to be done. Dewey did not yet have an adequate account of experience suitable to explain how our immediate experiencing b...
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    47,28 €

  • Decolonizing American Philosophy
    Wide-ranging examination of American philosophy’s ties to settler colonialism and its role as both an object and a force of decolonization.In Decolonizing American Philosophy, Corey McCall and Phillip McReynolds bring together leading scholars at the forefront of the field to ask: Can American philosophy, as the product of a colonial enterprise, be decolonized? Does American ph...
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    47,15 €

  • Mastering The Stoic Way Of Life
    Andreas Athanas
    How to strive for peace in mind, body, and spirit by incorporating the Greek philosophy of stoicism, even if you feel like your life is out of control.Our modern world is fast-paced, chaotic, and it often sends us on an emotional rollercoaster ride. We struggle to stay afloat as we’re caught in the tide of social media, constant comparison, the need for success, and a lack of m...
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    16,16 €

  • A Semiotic Christology
    Cyril Orji
    This book details how semiotics furthers an understanding of the science of Christology. In the light of the trend towards evolutionary worldview, the book goes beyond description and critically engages the sign system of C. S. Peirce, which it sees as a conceptual tool and method for a better understanding of some of the basic issues in Christology. ...
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    30,32 €

  • American Aesthetics
    Proposes a distinctly American approach to aesthetic judgment and practice.Although there are distinctly American artists-Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Grandma Moses, Thomas Hart Benton, and Andy Warhol, for example-very little attention has been devoted to formulating any distinctively American characteristics of aesthetic judgment and practice. This volume takes a step in th...
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    50,49 €

  • The Origin Of Letters And Numerals According To The Sefer Yetzirah
    Phineas Mordell
    A lucid bridge between mysticism and linguistics.A compact study that enlightens.Phineas Mordell’s The Origin Of Letters And Numerals According To The Sefer Yetzirah offers a lucid, disciplined reading of an ancient Jewish mystery. As a kabbalistic studies book and sefer yetzirah commentary it follows the Sefer Yetzirah’s concern with the symbolism of letters and probes the ori...
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    17,09 €

  • On Being Ignored
    G.V. Loewen / G.VLoewen / Gregory Loewen
    Ethics, Cultural CriticismThe critical social philosopher is the auditor-general of contemporary society and culture. These essays speak for themselves. Their content may be popular, but their reflections may not be. By promoting our abject failures as successes – my children respect me, our schools are superior, we love nature, we defend freedom, our God is great, and so on – ...
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    11,32 €

  • Theosemiotic
    Michael L. Raposa / Michael LRaposa
    In Theosemiotic, Michael Raposa uses Charles Peirce’s semiotic theory to rethink certain issues in contemporary philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion. He first sketches a history that links Peirce’s thought to that of earlier figures (both within the tradition of American religious thought and beyond), as well as to other classical pragmatists and to later think...
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    44,45 €

  • Dewey, Heidegger, and the Future of Education
    Vasco d’Agnese
    Drawing on insights into the philosophies of Dewey and Heidegger, this book moves forward the greater philosophical discourse surrounding education.  It illuminates deep affinities between the corresponding traditions of Dewey and Heidegger, broadly labeled hermeneutics and pragmatism, and in doing so reveals the potential of the Dewey-Heidegger comparison for the future of edu...
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    66,78 €

  • Philosophical conceptions and practical results
    William James
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    7,69 €

  • Pragmatism
    William James
    2020 Reprint of the 1907 Edition.  Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that, very broadly, understands knowing the world as inseparable from agency within it. This general idea has attracted a remarkably rich and at times contrary range of interpretations, including: that all philosophical concepts should be tested via scientific experimentation, that a claim is true if and...
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    10,02 €

  • Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy
    Sami Pihlström
    Both as a traditional theological issue and in its broader secular varieties, theodicy remains a problem in the philosophy of religion. In this book, Professor Sami Pihlström provides a novel critical reassessment of the theodicy discourse addressing the problem of evil and suffering. He develops an antitheodicist view, arguing that theodicies seeking to render apparently meani...
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    39,48 €

  • John Dewey and Confucian Thought
    Jim Behuniak / Jr. Jim Behuniak
    Assesses John Dewey’s visit to China in 1919-21 as an 'intra-cultural' episode and promotes 'Chinese natural philosophy' as a philosophical context in which to understand the connections between Dewey’s philosophy and early Confucian thinking.In this conclusion to his two-volume series, Jim Behuniak builds upon the groundbreaking work begun in John Dewey and Daoist Thought in a...
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    50,49 €

  • John Dewey and Daoist Thought
    Jim Behuniak / Jr. Jim Behuniak
    Proposes an 'intra-cultural philosophy' based on John Dewey’s 'cultural turn' and promotes Daoist thought as a resource that can help to reconstruct outmoded assumptions that continue to shape how we currently think.In this timely and original work, Dewey’s late-period 'cultural turn' is recovered and 'intra-cultural philosophy' proposed as its next logical step-a step beyond w...
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    50,51 €

  • The Real Metaphysical Club
    A full account of the Metaphysical Club, featuring the members’ philosophical writings and four critical essays.The Metaphysical Club, a gathering of intellectuals in the 1870s, is widely recognized as the crucible where pragmatism, America’s distinctively original philosophy, was refined and proclaimed. Louis Menand’s bestseller about the group was a dramatic publishing succes...
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    53,26 €


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