Pragmatic fashions : pluralism, democracy, relativism, and the absurd /

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Author / Creator:Stuhr, John J., author.
Imprint:Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2016]
Description:xi, 256 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:American philosophy
American philosophy.
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10486415
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ISBN:9780253018915
0253018919
9780253018847
0253018846
9780253018977
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Chance vistas and sincerity in the cosmic labyrinth
  • Philosophies as fashions
  • Does philosophy progress?: criticism without critique
  • Convergence and difference: immanent pluralism
  • It's all relative: beyond absolutism and nihilism
  • Expressions of nature: refashioning the Hudson River School
  • Old ideals crumble: war and the limits of philosophy
  • Democracy as public experiment: beyond mission accomplished and mission impossible
  • A terrible love of hope: toward peace before death
  • Absurd pragmatism
  • The spring collection: intermedia moralia; or, a romance of our incoherence.