{"product_id":"pragmatic-fashions-pluralism-democracy-relativism-and-the-absurd-hardback-9780253018847","title":"Pragmatic Fashions; Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd (Hardback) 9780253018847","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePragmatic Fashions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn J. Stuhr (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253018847\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 November 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e274 pages, 45 color illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.658 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How might philosophers speak from and to experiences that are based on values and habits that are destructive for the ends they intend? Speak in ways that encourage and support constructive transformations of those obstructive ways of life? John J. Stuhr develops a head-on confrontation with many habitual types of Western philosophical thought as he wrestles with fundamental questions of language, philosophical method, communal life, and personal transformations.\"—Charles E. Scott, \u003ci\u003eVanderbilt University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A wide-ranging and impassioned text that argues for the ongoing relevance of pragmatism in contemporary life. John J. Stuhr reminds us that philosophy should be measured by the degree that it abandons the armchair and ventures outside of the narrow confines of the academy to inspire, motivate, and enact concrete change in oneself, others, and the wider world.\"—Megan Craig, author of Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phenomenology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn J. Stuhr, a leading voice in American philosophy, sets forth a view of pragmatism as a personal work of art or fashion. Stuhr develops his pragmatism by putting pluralism forward, setting aside absolutism and nihilism, opening new perspectives on democracy, and focusing on love. He creates a space for a philosophy that is liable to failure and that is experimental, pluralist, relativist, radically empirical, radically democratic, and absurd. Full color illustrations enhance this lyrical commitment to a new version of pragmatism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Expressivism and Pragmatism\u003cbr\u003e 1. Chance Vistas and Sincerity in the Cosmic Labyrinth\u003cbr\u003e 2. Philosophies as Fashions\u003cbr\u003e 3. Does Philosophy Progress?: Criticism without Critique\u003cbr\u003e 4. Convergence and Difference: Immanent Pluralism\u003cbr\u003e 5. It's All Relative: Beyond Absolutism and Nihilism\u003cbr\u003e 6. Expressions of Nature: Refashioning the Hudson River School\u003cbr\u003e 7. Old Ideals Crumble: War and the Limits of Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e 8. Democracy as Public Experiment: Beyond Mission Accomplished and Mission Impossible\u003cbr\u003e 9. A Terrible Love of Hope: Toward Peace Before Death\u003cbr\u003e 10. Absurd Pragmatism\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Spring Collection: Intermedia Moralia; or, a Romance of Our Incoherence\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523959615768,"sku":"9780253018847","price":63.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/pragmatic-fashions-pluralism-democracy-relativism-and-the-absurd-hardback-9780253018847","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}