Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life

by Rich Shusterman and Richard M. Shusterman

Book Overview

Applying contemporary pragmatism to the crucial question of how philosophy can help us live better, Shusterman develops his distinctive aesthetic model of philosophical living that includes politics, somatics, and ethnicity, while critically engaging the rival views of Dewey, Wittgenstein, and Foucault, as well as Rorty, Putnam, Goodman, Habermas, and Cavell.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415913942
• ISBN13: 9780415913942
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"