Product Description: Richard Rorty was one of the most important philosophers of the last half of the twentieth century. His work helped effect global transformations in the way philosophy thinks about its work and role midst contemporary culture. He was influential across a diversity of disciplines in perturbing our inherited self-understandings of the place of intellectuals in culture and the roles of art, literature, science, and religion in contemporary liberal democratic society...read more

Product Description: Wie verändert sich in einer digitalisierten Welt unser Verständnis von Erkenntnis, Kommunikation und Kultur? Welche Auswirkungen hat die digitale Matrix auf das Zusammenspiel von Mensch, Natur und Technik in einer globalisierten Welt? Was wird aus dem menschlichen Körper und wie gehen wir mit unseren neuen Mediensüchten um? Mit diesen und ähnlichen Fragen setzen sich die in dem Band versammelten Aufsätze auseinander...read more

Product Description: The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy explores how the various discursive strategies of old and new pragmatisms are related, and what their pertinence is to the relationship between pragmatism and philosophy as a whole. The contributors bridge the divide between analytic and continental philosophy through a transcontinental desire to work on common problems in a common philosophical language...read more

Product Description: The subject of 'time' is currently experiencing a revival in the most diverse areas of academic discourse. Contemporary time theory attempts to relate theoretical time concepts both to one another and to everyday experience of time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)