Pragmatist Variations on Ethical and Intercultural Life [Hardcover]

This book eloquently argues and illustrates why pragmatism remains one of the most interesting and still promising philosophical traditions on the intellectual scene. Redolent of Rortys ebullient and generous readings, `kof shows how at the heart of pragmatism is a corporeal ethics of co-responsibility, a watchful attentiveness to the generative civic praxis of communities, and a solicitous hermeneutics that calls for an intercultural philosophy. Rortys proclamation of a post-philosophical culture is here translated in terms of an intercultural philosophy. This book also has the added virtue of excavating for us a fascinating genealogy that should make us more humble and reticent to bunt around anachronistic terms such as analytic and continental.One must welcome the efforts made by Lenart `kof to promote a democracy that is not based only on money, goods and conflicts for appropriating them.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.The book is a contribution to the fields of pragmatism, intercultural philosophy, and social and political ethics. The argument in the book runs along two lines: firstly, four pragmatist philosophers (William James, John Dewey, Richard Rorty, and Roberto Mangabeira Unger) are discussed by putting them into their respective intercultural contexts. They are interpreted as philosophers that were/are either explicitly or implicitly linked to some of the key tenets in comparative and/or intercultural philosophy of the twentieth/twenty-first century. Secondly, the book looks to their particular works and discusses the role of the body and its important ethical potential. In their respective contexts, it looks at the possibilities for linkinglãb