| Description |
xxxii, 288 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Note |
"A Penguin original"--Cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Trotsky and the wild orchids -- Truth without correspondence to reality -- A world without substances or essences -- Ethics without principles -- The banality of pragmatism and the poetry of justice -- Pragmatism and law : a response to David Luban -- Education as socialization and as individualization -- The humanistic intellectual : eleven theses -- The pragmatist's progress : Umberto Eco on interpretation -- Religious faith, intellectual responsibility and romance -- Religion as conversation-stopper -- Thomas Kuhn, rocks and the laws of physics -- On Heidegger's Nazism -- Failed prophecies, glorious hopes -- A spectre is haunting the intellectuals : Derrida on Marx -- Love and money -- Globalization, the politics of identity and social hope -- Looking backwards from the year 2096 -- The unpatriotic academy -- Back to class politics. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
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Pragmatism.
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| ISBN |
0140262881 |
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