Ideas to live for : toward a global ethics /

Gunn, Giles B.,

Ideas to live for : toward a global ethics / Giles Gunn. - Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource. - Studies in religion and culture .

Essays previously published between 1987 and 2012.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Who are you really, and what were you before? : reflections on 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 inter- and cross-cultural criticism -- Religion and the recent rival of pragmatism -- Human solidarity and the problem of otherness -- The place of culture in the play of international politics -- The trans-civilizational, the inter-civilizational, and the human : the quest for the normative in the legitimacy debate -- Global ethics.



9780813937304


Philosophy, American--20th century.
Pragmatism.
Globalization.


Electronic Books.

B935 / .I343 2015