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Tables of Contents for Philosophy and Social Hope
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
ix
Preface
xii
Introduction: Relativism: Finding and Making
xvi
I Autobiographical
Trotsky and the Wild Orchids
3
20
II Hope in Place of Knowledge: A Version of Pragmatism
Truth without Correspondence to Reality
23
24
A World without Substances or Essences
47
25
Ethics Without Principles
72
21
III Some Applications of Pragmatism
The Banality of Pragmatism and the Poetry of Justice
93
11
Pragmatism and Law: A Response to David Luban
104
10
Education as Socialization and as Individualization
114
13
The Humanistic Intellectual: Eleven Theses
127
4
The Pragmatist's Progress: Umberto Eco on Interpretation
131
17
Religious Faith, Intellectual Responsibility and Romance
148
20
Religion As Conversation-stopper
168
7
Thomas Kuhn, Rocks and the Laws of Physics
175
26
On Heidegger's Nazism
IV Politics
Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes
201
9
A Spectre is Haunting the Intellectuals: Derrida on Marx
210
13
Love and Money
223
6
Globalization, the Politics of Identity and Social Hope
229
14
V Contemporary America
Looking Backwards from the Year 2096
243
9
The Unpatriotic Academy
252
3
Back to Class Politics
255
7
Afterword: Pragmatism, Pluralism and Postmodernism
262
16
Index
278