Pragmatic Fashions: Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd
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John J. Stuhr, a leading voice in American philosophy, sets forth a view of pragmatism as a personal work of art or fashion. Stuhr develops his pragmatism by putting pluralism forward, setting aside absolutism and nihilism, opening new perspectives on democracy, and focusing on love. He creates a space for a philosophy that is liable to failure and that is experimental, pluralist, relativist, radically empirical, radically democratic, and absurd. Full color illustrations enhance this lyrical commitment to a new version of pragmatism.
How might philosophers speak from and to experiences that are based on values and habits that are destructive for the ends they intend? Speak in ways that encourage and support constructive transformations of those obstructive ways of life? John J. Stuhr develops a head-on confrontation with many habitual types of Western philosophical thought as he wrestles with fundamental questions of language, philosophical method, communal life, and personal transformations.
Vanderbilt University
- Title: Pragmatic Fashions: Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd
- Author: John J. Stuhr
- Series: American Philosophy
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 274
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780253018977, 9780253018847, 0253018846, 0253018978
- Resource ID: LLS:9780253018977
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T11:51:08Z
John J. Stuhr is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and American Studies and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Emory University. He is author of Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and the Future of Philosophy and editor of 100 Years of Pragmatism: William James's Revolutionary Philosophy (IUP, 2010).