The Politics of Survival: Peirce, Affectivity, and Social Criticism

by Lara Trout

Book Overview

How can sincere, well-meaning people unintentionally perpetuate discrimination based on race, sex, sexuality, or other socio-political factors? To address this question, Lara Trout engages a neglected dimension of Charles S. Peirce's philosophy - human embodiment - in order to highlight the compatibility between Peirce's ideas and contemporary work in social criticism. This compatibility, which has been neglected in both Peircean and social criticism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823232964
• ISBN13: 9780823232963
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"