The Self Awakened
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The Self Awakened

Pragmatism Unbound

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  2. English
  3. PDF
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eBook - PDF

The Self Awakened

Pragmatism Unbound

About this book

In what kind of world and for what kind of thought is time real, history open, and novelty possible? In what kind of world and for what kind of thought does it make sense for a human being to look for trouble rather than to stay out of trouble?In this long-awaited work of general philosophy, Roberto Mangabeira Unger proposes a radical reorientation of established ideas about nature, mind, society, politics, and religion. He shows how we have to change our beliefs if we are to succeed in doing justice to our most distinctive contemporary experiences, discoveries, and ideals.

The Self Awakened mobilizes the resources of several philosophical traditions, and develops the unrecognized revolutionary implications of the most influential of these traditions today--pragmatism. Avoiding technical jargon and needless complication, this book makes a case for philosophy as the supreme activity of the intellect at war, insisting on its power to deal with what matters most.

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Information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780674034969
9780674023543
eBook ISBN
9780674267886
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. The Philosophy of the Age
  6. Chapter 1. Rejected Options
  7. Chapter 2. The Perennial Philosophy and Its Enemy
  8. Chapter 3. Pragmatism Reclaimed
  9. Chapter 4. The Core Conception: Constraint, Incompleteness, Resistance, Reinvention
  10. Chapter 5. Time and Experience: Antinomies of the Impersonal
  11. Chapter 6. The Reality of Time: The Transformation of Transformation
  12. Chapter 7. Self-Consciousness: Humanity Imagined
  13. Chapter 8. What Then Should We Do?
  14. Chapter 9. Society: The Perpetual Invention of the Future
  15. Chapter 10. Politics: Democracy as Anti-Fate
  16. Chapter 11. A Moment of Reform: The Reinvention of Social Democracy
  17. Chapter 12. Religion: The Self Awakened
  18. Chapter 13. Philosophy: Beyond Superscience and Self-Help
  19. First Digression: Nature in Its Place
  20. Second Digression: The Universal Grid of Philosophy
  21. Proper Name Index
  22. Thematic Index

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