Ideas to live for : toward a global ethics /

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Author / Creator:Gunn, Giles B.
Uniform title:Essays. Selections
Imprint:Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2015]
Description:xiii, 234 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in religion and culture
Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10395075
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ISBN:9780813937298
0813937299
9780813937311
0813937310
9780813937304
Notes:Essays previously published between 1987 and 2012.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Who are you really, and what were you before? : reflections on a thinking life
  • The semiotics of culture and the diagnostics of criticism : Clifford Geertz and the moral imagination
  • Rorty's Novum organum
  • Interdisciplinarity and the deepening of the American mind
  • Multiculturalism, mourning, and the Americas : toward a new pragmatics of cross- and intercultural criticism
  • Religion and the recent revival of pragmatism
  • Human solidarity and the problem of otherness
  • The place of culture in the play of international politics
  • The transcivilizational, the intercivilizational, and the human : the quest for the normative in the legitimacy debate
  • Global ethics
  • Epilogue: Cosmopolitanism in an era of globalized absolutisms.