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Transformative Learning for a New Worldview: Learning to Think Differently

M. G. Jackson

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Transformative learning is a process in which we question all the assumptions about the world and ourselves that make up our worldview, visualize alternative assumptions, and then test them in practice. The author describes the process, offering a critique of contemporary assumptions, and suggests alternatives to illustrate the process. The primary focus of the book is on transformative learning in mainstream global culture, but the special problems and opportunities for people of post-colonial societies are also dealt with. Practical suggestions for conducting transformative learning exercises are given.

Sense of the World

Jean-Luc Nancy

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Is there a "world" anymore, much less any "sense" to it? Acknowledging the lack of meaning in our time, and the lack of a world at the center of meanings we try to impose, Jean-Luc Nancy presents a rigorous critique of the many discourses--from philosophy and political science to psychoanalysis and art history--that talk and write their way around these gaping absences in our lives.

Latin American Philosophy: Currents, Issues, Debates

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The ten essays in this lively anthology move beyond a purely historical consideration of Latin American philosophy to cover recent developments in political and social philosophy as well as innovations in the reception of key philosophical figures from the European Continental tradition. Topics such as indigenous philosophy, multiculturalism, the philosophy of race, democracy, postmodernity, the role of women, and the position of Latin America and Latin Americans in a global age are explored by notable philosophers from the region. An introduction by Eduardo Mendieta examines recent trends and points to the social, political, economic, and cultural conditions that have inspired the discipline. Latin American Philosophy brings English-speaking readers up to date with recent scholarship and points to promising new directions.

The Economics of Rights, Co-Operation, and Welfare

Robert Sugden

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This is a new edition - with a substantial new introduction - of a book which has had a significant impact on economics, philosophy and political science. Robert Sugden shows how conventions of property, mutual aid, and voluntary supply of public goods can evolve spontaneously out of the interactions of self-interested individuals, and can become moral norms. Sugden was among the first social scientists to use evolutionary game theory. His approach remains distinctive in emphasizing psychological and cultural notions of salience.

Habermas and Pragmatism

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Definitely worth buying! 4 out of 5 stars.
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If your interests revolve around deliberative democracy, philosophy of language, Habermas' work, or American philosophical pragmatism, then this book is definitely worth buying. The editor, Mitchell Aboulafia, is a well-known thinker in his own right; the range and quality of the contributions could hardly be any better. In a word, this book should capture the attention of both Habermas' followers and his critics, for his interpretation of pragmatism is not without problems as some of the contributions here show.

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Jurgen Habermas is one of the most important thinkers of this century. His work has been highly influential not only in philosophy, but particularly in the fields of politics, sociology and law. This is the first collection that explores the connections between his body of work and North America's biggest philosophical movement, pragmatism.

Habermas and Pragmatism investigates the influences of pragmatism on Habermas' thought in a collection of stellar essays with contributions by Habermas himself, leading representatives of pragmatism, as well as critical and legal theorists. The essays cover a range of subjects including philosophy of language, democracy, nature of rationality and social theory as well as the relation of major figures such as Hegel, Pierce, Mead and Dewey to Habermas and pragmatism.

Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason

David Ingram

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Hard but rewarding intro to Habermas 4 out of 5 stars.
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Habermas never wrote in an accesible language. His subject is already difficult, and it puzzles me why someone who wrote so much about communication can't get his message accros in a language that for once does not border the obscurantist. This German philosopher is like a bottle of exquisite wine, it takes a long time to appreciate the taste, but when you do, it stays with you for ever. Maybe my continuing struggle with Habermas's ideas has to do with my limited knowledge of social theory, or the sheer depth of his writings that keeps to amaze me. Ingram isn't much better when it comes to prose, however, he manages to pack in a small book all there is to know about Habermas when you are short on time but you can bring up the concentration to absorb the material. For those who want a similar, but far more accesible intro to Habermas, I would recommend Jane Braaten's "Habermas's critical theory of society". Braaten's book helped me make the 'jump' and understand some key concepts. Ingrams book is wonderfully dense and concise. It remains good companion, even when you managed to read Habermas in his full glory. However, you need some knowledge of social theory and continental philosophy to fully appreciate Ingram's book.

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'The book is indispensable to an understanding of both HabErmas and the contemporary human condition.' --'SCOTT WARREN, 'SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY'

Vision of the Future

Mortimer J. Adler

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Environmental Philosophy

Christopher Belshaw

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An introduction to environmental philosophy, this book offers an account of the debates over how we should think about the natural world and our place in it. It challenges many of the dichotomies (man/nature, green/non-green) often set up, advocating conciliation rather than confrontation. Beginning with chapers that outline various concerns, this book goes on to explore many of the claims made about these concerns from the moderate view that we ought to consider notonly ourselves but also other animals, to the seemingly more extravagent claims that non-sentiant life, rocks, deserts, indeed all the processes of nature should be valued for their own sake. The imporatnce of an aesthetic response to the environment is explored, opening the way for a human-centered posistionwhich is both more generous and more flexible than those often advanced elsewhere.

Speech and Society: The Christian Linguistic Social Philosophy of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

George Allen Morgan

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Speech and Society 2 out of 5 stars.
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This is a scholarly primer of Rosenstock-Huessy's multifaceted thought. Nothing written before on the subject has approached the breadth of knowledge of the vast corpus of his writings and the insights into his thought that are contained here. This will undoubtedly remain the standard work on Rosenstock-Huessy for generations of appreciative students.
George Allen Morgan discovered Rosenstock-Huessy in 1934 at Harvard. Having recently completed his doctorate in philosophy under Alfred North Whitehead, Morgan was at that time preparing his classic work, What Nietzsche Means (Harvard, 1941). Dr. Morgan later played a major role in helping Rosenstock-Huessy organize The Christian Future. After completing 23 years as a career foreign service officer and diplomat, Dr. Morgan spent the next 15 years reading, at least once, each of Rosenstock-Huessy's 45 books and more than 700 articles and other unpublished material.
This compact and beautifully written volume is divided into three parts. Part One, Fundamentals, begins with the elements of Rosenstock-Huessy's Speech-Thinking: the Grammatical Method and the Cross of Reality. Part Two, Historical Perspectives, includes as topics Jews, Christians, Greeks, and his millennarian view of history as it relates to the Church, world revolutions, and the planetary human; Part Three, Selected Aphorisms, is a magnificent collection under the heading, "Fires of Inspiration." An early edition of Lise van der Molen's bibliography, organized by type of publication, is also included.
"Speech and Society" can also be ordered from Argo Books (www.argobooks.org), as can all the rest of Rosenstock-Huessy's English language works, including many of the lectures he gave on these topics. The lectures alone comprise more than 5000 pages of spontaneous comments he made to students from 1949 to 1968.

The Constructive Revolutionary: John Calvin and His Socio-Economic Impact

W. Fred Graham

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